7:35 am: Cool at the beach again early on this Friday this morning. Wave height early looks6 inches to 1 foot. The wind is S @ 4 knots but light and shifting around allowing forglassy surface conditions. Our local buoy the early wave height reading is 1.0 foot at 10 seconds compared with yesterdays 1.0 feet at 10 seconds. Themarine forecastispredicting increasing S winds today. The water temperature is measured at 66.7 degrees atThe Pierthis morning. See the ocean live by viewingTheSurf Station Cam Pagehere.
8:15 am: Earlymorning photosare up and you can see we have very small waves this morning. Small totiny overallwith shin to maybe knee highglassywaves if you wait around. A super great St. Augustine Beach sunrise
Report Overview
Report Title: Friday 3/15/24 Dawn Patrol
Reporter: Tory Strange
Report Of The Day: 1
Change From Yesterday: Smaller
Change From Last Report: The wind is super light
Current Wave Size: 1/2 a foot to barely 1 foot on inconsistent set waves
Surface Conditions: Semi-glassy to glassy
Surf Station Surf Factor: 1.5 (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 sideshore seabreeze this afternoon
Swell Info
Form: Good (just small and weak overall)
Wave Size In Body Height: shin to knee high
Largest Wave: no thigh high waves seen
Surf Is On Increase or Decrease: bottoming out
Wind Swell / Ground Swell / Combo: very minor groundswell
Swell Direction: E
Current: slight, if any
Swell Interval: some 10-11 second readings on the local buoy