Wednesday 8/30/23 Evening

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Wednesday 8/30/23 Evening

Reporter:

Tory Strange

Report Of The Day:

Change From Yesterday:

Larger (morning to morning comparison)

Change From Last Report:

The wind is offshore this evening !

Current Wave Size:

2-3-5 feet with larger set waves

Surface Conditions:

Cleaner

Surf Station Surf Factor:

4.5

4.5 (on a 1-10 scale)
Comments: Definitely some fun surf.

6 Hour Forecast:

Waves waist to chest, occasionally a little larger with offshore winds past dark

Swell Info

Form:

Very good

Wave Size In Body Height:

waist to chest high, occasionally larger

Largest Wave:

a few head shoulder to head high waves

Surf Is On Increase or Decrease:

leveled off. decreased some

Wind Swell / Ground Swell / Combo:

Groundswell combo with windswell

Swell Direction:

SE (primarily)

Current:

very strong, from the south

Swell Interval:

Primarily 6 second windswell from the SE

Hard To Paddle Out:

4.5 (1-5 scale)

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Water Temperature:

Water Clarity:

stirred up

Critters:

no new reports overnight

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Surf Report Comments

Wednesday, August 30th

Reporter: T. Strange

Written on our Weather Page about our weather today:

5:15 am: Super super windy all day today with Cat 4 130 mph Hurricane Idalia to the west of us. The hurricane is moving fast in the Gulf of Mexico to the NNE at 18 mph and will make landfall from the Gulf to land this morning, between Cedar key and Apalachicola then cross Florida into Georgia today. Today is our ‘big weather event’ with the worst of the storm behind us by late tonight. Tomorrow, Thursday, may still be a little stormy, but will be clearing, with much better weather for the weekend

Surf Report comments:

7:05 am: Waves are larger than yesterday as a new strong SE windswell in relation to Hurricane Idalia mixes with the Hurricane Franklin groundswell from yesterday. Waves 3-5 feet and very choppy. The wind is SE @ 26-33 knots measured at the pier at 6 am this morning. The marine forecast calling for S winds 35-45 knots with gusts to 70 knots today. On the the local buoy, the early wave height measurement is 6.2 feet at 6 seconds up in size & down in duration from yesterdays 4.6 feet @ 12 seconds.

Here are some fast links to pertinent info including the pier data that includes water temperature. Our weather station that include the current swell direction.+ comments on todays weather. And our 6 cams with one look page

8:00 am: Early morning photos are up in box #1 and you can see how choppy and blown out the surf is. Large SE windswell overtaking the ENE Hurricane Franklin groundswell with messy super drifty conditions. Looks like more wind and mess all day today….

10:45 am; Wow oh wow the buoy had increased overnight .. and now has increased 4 feet even since this morning! It’s gone from 6 feet to 10 feet on the local buoy in wave height measurments. And looking at it along the beach… much larger surf as the wind and swell continues to come up. Lots of whitecaps at sea and some random super messy sloppy peaks breaking… sometimes anywhere, with all the crazy wind.

3:00 pm: New afternoon photos are up in box #2 and you can see the wind is clocking! The strong sideshore winds are shifting more offshore so the surf is starting…..starting to clean up, Some big giant sprays off some of the top to the waves. Looks like some fun drops and lines . No one out surfing it yet that I could see… but probably there will be some surfers challenging this large hurricane swell before dark, we will see….

We are OPEN now here at The Surf Station. We may close a little early this evening. Call the shop for the exact time @ 471-9463

Here is the overview wind map, tropical Atlantic Map and here is the Map centered on St. Augustine. Click.on the link, then zoom out to see wind speed/direction and the fetch that generates our waves. Here is the weekly weather forecast for St.Augustine Beach, and the 5-day NWS Marine Forecast for Northeast Florida coastal waters. The flurry of tropical activity earlier in August (4 named storms in 39 hours!) culminates this week Major Hurricanes Franklin (open Atlantic) and Idalia (landfall near Keaton Beach). As Franklin departs well out in the north Atlantic, monitor Idalia’s track on radar through SE Georgia then on out into the Atlantic east of Savannah. Franklin’s long period swell size peaked Tuesday, then got blown into oblivion by Idalia’s strong suck-up SE/S swell on Wednesday. Wind will gradually clock side to offshore toward evening (earlier in the afternoon south areas), then be somewhat lighter and offshore from the W/NW all day Thursday. See Dean’s ever-changing 7-Day Surf Forecast for how long we will have waves in the wake of a pair of Major hurricanes bracketing the Florida peninsula.

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