7:35 am: Chilly at the beach again early this morning. Wave height down to 6 inches to 1 foot. The wind is cool WNW @ 8-9 knots allowing for glassy surface conditions. Our local buoy the early wave height reading is 1.0 feet at 10 seconds down from yesterday’s 2.0 feet at 10 seconds. Themarine forecastispredicting NE winds today. The water temperature is measured at 65,8 degrees atThe Pierthis morning. See the ocean live by viewingTheSurf Station Cam Pagehere.
8:00 am: Earlymorning photosare up and posted inbox #1and you can see we have very small waves for your Thursday. Small overall with waves only aroundshin to barely knee high. It’s glassy with thelight offshore wind. With the size down on the local buoy, the surf will bevery much smallertoday. Our best hope is for an incoming tide push, which will be happening all morning long. And with offshore winds at report time, therecould be some longboard peelersat key spots….
Report Title: Thursday 3/14/24 Dawn Patrol
Reporter: Tory Strange
Report Of The Day: 1
Change From Yesterday: Smaller
Change From Last Report: The wind has turned back offshore
Current Wave Size: 1/2 a foot to 1 foot
Surface Conditions: Semi-glassy
Surf Station Surf Factor: 1.75 (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 seabreeze this afternoon
Swell Info
Form: fair
Wave Size In Body Height: shin to knee high
Largest Wave: no thigh high waves seen
Surf Is On Increase or Decrease: decrease
Wind Swell / Ground Swell / Combo: very minor groundswell
Swell Direction: ENE
Current: slight, if any
Swell Interval: some 10 second readings on the local buoy