Thursday 3/14/24 Dawn Patrol

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Thursday 3/14/24 Dawn Patrol

Reporter:

Tory Strange

Report Of The Day:

Change From Yesterday:

Smaller

Change From Last Report:

The wind has turned back offshore

Current Wave Size:

1/2 a foot to 1 foot

Surface Conditions:

Semi-glassy

Surf Station Surf Factor:

1.75

1.75 (on a 1-10 scale)
Comments: It’s ridable, not real good though.

6 Hour Forecast:

Waves shin to knee high. Clean early morning; a seabreeze this afternoon

Swell Info

Form:

fair

Wave Size In Body Height:

shin to knee high

Largest Wave:

no thigh high waves seen

Surf Is On Increase or Decrease:

decrease

Wind Swell / Ground Swell / Combo:

very minor groundswell

Swell Direction:

ENE

Current:

slight, if any

Swell Interval:

some 10 second readings on the local buoy

Hard To Paddle Out:

1 (1-5 scale)

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Tides

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Temperature, Critters, & More

Water Temperature:

65.8

Water Clarity:

fair

Critters:

no new reports in overnight

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Surf Report Comments

Thursday, March 14th

Reporter: T. Strange

Surf Report comments:

7:35 am: Chilly at the beach again early this morning. Wave height down to 6 inches to 1 foot. The wind is cool WNW @ 8-9 knots allowing for glassy surface conditions. Our local buoy the early wave height reading is 1.0 feet at 10 seconds down from yesterday’s 2.0 feet at 10 seconds. The marine forecast is predicting NE winds today. The water temperature is measured at 65,8 degrees at The Pier this morning. See the ocean live by viewing The Surf Station Cam Page here.

8:00 am: Early morning photos are up and posted in box #1 and you can see we have very small waves for your Thursday. Small overall with waves only around shin to barely knee high. It’s glassy with the light offshore wind. With the size down on the local buoy, the surf will be very much smaller today. Our best hope is for an incoming tide push, which will be happening all morning long. And with offshore winds at report time, there could be some longboard peelers at key spots….

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Here is the overview wind map. Here is the weekly weather forecast for St Augustine Beach, and the 5-day NWS Marine Forecast for Northeast Florida coastal waters. A smaller mixed period (7-occ 10) mixed period swell lingers Sunday morning on the Ponce buoy. Looking upstream, the South Hatteras buoy indicates the small background/residual long period (10-11 sec) ENE swell will continue to gradually diminish. There is hope embedded in Dean’s Surf Forecast “While we will see generally small surf through mid-March, a pair of brief pulses of N/NE swell will filter in on the 19th and again on the 23rd. Then, latest medium-range forecast analysis suggests a strong/persistent high pressure ridge will set up in the Atlantic for the last week of the month, creating a lengthy easterly fetch resulting in a moderate-sized multi-day ESE swell.”

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