Wednesday 11/01/23 Dawn Patrol

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Wednesday 11/01/23 Dawn Patrol

Reporter:

Tory Strange

Report Of The Day:

Change From Yesterday:

Swell direction change (morning to morning comparison)

Change From Last Report:

Chilly!

Current Wave Size:

1 to 2 feet

Surface Conditions:

semi-choppy

Surf Station Surf Factor:

1.75

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

6 Hour Forecast:

Very cool N winds with wave size in the knee to waist high range, then increasing, with cross chop and drift

Swell Info

Form:

fair to poor form for the most part

Wave Size In Body Height:

knee to thigh high, occasionally waist high

Largest Wave:

rib high or so on some peaks

Surf Is On Increase or Decrease:

after a decrease it's back on the increase

Wind Swell / Ground Swell / Combo:

windswell

Swell Direction:

Current:

increasing from the N

Swell Interval:

6 seconds on the local buoy

Hard To Paddle Out:

2.5 (1-5 scale)

Wind Info

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Tides

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Water Temperature:

Water Clarity:

fair

Critters:

no new reports

St. Augustine Weather Station:

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Surf Report Comments

Wednesday, November 1st

Surf Report comments:

Reporter: T. Strange

7:45 am: Much cooler at beach. A cold front with new NNW winds bringing much cooler air and shifting our swell direction to the N. It hasn’t increased much but it is trying. Wave size @ 1 to 2 feet in angled N swell. The wind is strong from the NNW @ 18-20 knots. On our local buoy the early morning reading is 5.9 feet at 6 seconds up in size but down in duration from yesterdays 3.0 feet at 8 seconds. You can watch the waves firsthand on our live surf cam page.

8:45 am: Early morning photos are up and posted in box #1 and you can see the sideoffshore conditions. Sweeping N swell with osme whitecaps at sea. Near shore it can be fairly clean at times, with even some opening up right hand tubes. The lefts are pushing dwon the beach with the very angled swell. The size will likely increase with all this wind. Looks like wetsuit weather is coming….

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 weatherforecast for St.Augustine Beach, and the 5-day NWS Marine Forecast for Northeast Florida coastal waters. The week-long onshore flow combined with TS Tammy’s lingering ground swell produced sizeable surf for the Tommy Tant Memorial in Flagler Beach with wind lighter for the contest!. Dean’s Surf Forecast carries through the contest into Halloween (trick or treat?) and will be detailing the next sizeable swell building through the second half of the work week.

Dean’s quote of the deja vu… “ War makes the world understandable, a black and white tableau of them and us. It upends thought, especially self-critical thought… Most of us willingly accept war as long as we can fold it into a belief system that paints the ensuing suffering as necessary for a higher good… ” Chris Hedges, NY Times war correspondent.

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