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Report Overview
Report Title:
Wednesday 12/4/24 Late Afternoon
Reporter:
Tory Strange
Report Of The Day:
3
Change From Yesterday:
Similar in size
Change From Last Report:
continued N / NE swell
Current Wave Size:
1 to occasjally 2 feet
Surface Conditions:
Semi-choppy
Surf Station Surf Factor:
Comments: Could be fun. Ya might want to at least look at it.
6 Hour Forecast:
N swell with waves 1 to occasionally 2 feet till dark
Swell Info
Form:
fair
Wave Size In Body Height:
knee to thigh high , occasionally a tad larger
Largest Wave:
an occasional waist high peak
Surf Is On Increase or Decrease:
up and down with the lulls and surges of the swell, currently up
Wind Swell / Ground Swell / Combo:
Windswell
Swell Direction:
NE
Current:
some slight N current
Swell Interval:
5-6 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:
68.4
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! Small north swell with some knee high to thigh high semi-glassy waves rolling in. Sideoffshfroe winds so semi-clean. Some lefts slipping down the beach on the inside at the higher tide....
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Report: Darbs
11:45 am: Waves are still small at report time, with waves in the 1.5 to 2 foot range. The conditions are semi-choppy to choppy with N winds blowing onshore at 4 to 6 knots. We have a low tide coming up at 4:14 this afternoon, but I’m not really thinking that there’s enough of a push out there to have it start breaking on the outside sandbar.
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4:00 pm: New mid afternoon photos are up box #3 and you can see we have a slight increase in our waves this afternoon. More of the swell is angling in, with some easily thigh high waves at times. A line to it, although the lines are a little bit choppy at times, with sideonshore winds. Sunny and nice and with a wetsuit some of the surfers are having fun on the south side of the pier this afternoon…..
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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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