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Report Overview
Report Title:
Tuesday 12/3/24 Late Afternoon
Reporter:
Tory Strange
Report Of The Day:
2
Change From Yesterday:
Similar in size
Change From Last Report:
continued N wind swell
Current Wave Size:
1 to 1.5 foot
Surface Conditions:
Semi-choppy
Surf Station Surf Factor:
Comments: It’s ridable, not real good though.
6 Hour Forecast:
Small scale N swell with waves 1 to 1.5 feet and sunny but chilly at the beach
Swell Info
Form:
fair to poor
Wave Size In Body Height:
knee high , occasionally a tad larger
Largest Wave:
an occasional thigh high wave
Surf Is On Increase or Decrease:
up and down with the lulls and surges of the swell
Wind Swell / Ground Swell / Combo:
Windswell
Swell Direction:
NE
Current:
some slight N current likley
Swell Interval:
5 seconds on the buoy offshore
Hard To Paddle Out:
1.5 (1-5 scale)
Wind Info
Wind Direction, Speed, & Air Temp:
Wind Direction / Speed For Florida:
Local Radar Link:
Tides
Temperature, Critters, & More
Water Temperature:
69.8
Water Clarity:
fair
Critters:
No new reports in overnight (send them in and we will post them up)
St. Augustine Weather Station:
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7:55 am: Early morning photos are up box #1 and it’s cold a the beach this mroing! Small overall with some knee high to maybe thigh high angled waves to be found. It’s semi-glassy close to the beach with siddeo NW winds. Sunny and super bright at the beach…
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4:30 pm: New late afternoon photos are up box #2 and you can see it’s small and choppy. And it’s still quite chilly at the beach too! Not much surfing going on as we head toward Tuesday night …
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Our Southside Surf Cam is back up and running! See it here .
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Winter weather has arrived now that strong cold fronts are progressively pushing through Florida, scouring out tropical moisture with cold/dry continental air with the end of the eventful 2024 hurricane season. Dean’s updated Surf Station Forecast calls for only a modest uptick at times during an extended period of cold January-like weather. The coldest air of the season is here, and the mediocre waves and dropping water temps make you wish that trip to the islands was booked for early December. Here is a good link to accurately track real-time, near-shore surf temperatures off the NE Florida coast: the Fernandina Beach buoy which measured 66F on Tuesday. It is upstream and closer to the coast than the buoy 40 nautical miles ENE of St. Augustine. Here is an overview of a large-scale, real-time wind map to track the shifting winds associated with the fronts and lows that produce our waves.
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