6:55 am: Wave height looks to be in the knee to thigh high range with some possibly larger sets at times, mostly clean conditions out there early with the lighter S winds.   The marine forecast is calling for the wind to be clock SW/W later today.       On our  local buoy the early morning reading is 3.9 feet at 7 seconds changed from yesterdays 3.6 feet at 8 seconds.      See the ocean live on the SS’s North Side Pier Cam here

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Reporter:  T. Strange

9:00 am:  Smaller surf but some fun looking surf as we head into mid morning.  Some 1-2 foot waves rolling in.  Fairly clean with the sideoffshore wind.  You can see the ‘spray off the lefts’ on the 3rd Street cam

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11:25 am: Mid morning photos are up in box #2 and you can see there are waves and the wind is clocking offshore.   As the wind clocks, the surf will improve. it’s already cleaning up as you can see in some of the photos…

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6:00 pm:  Afternoon and evening photos are up in box #3 with the first 5 taken from 3rd Street around 12:30 pm.    The remaining photos in the slide show were taken just before dark from 16th Street.    You can see the waves are smaller now that it’s close to dark.  The waives are fairly clean as the offshore wind has groomed the swell, cleaning up the surf.   There is still swell on local buoy so maybe some of this swell will hang around for tomorrow..

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Here is the overview wind map, and here is the Windi Map centered on St. Augustine. Click.on the link, then zoom out to see wind speed/direction and the fetch that generates waves. Here is the weekly weather forecast for St.Augustine Beach, and the 5 day tropical weather outlook suggests nothing (tropically) stirring. Well, the mid-November “All’s quite on the western (Atlantic) front” doesn’t take cold fronts and nor’easters into consideration. So Dean’s 7-Day Surf Forecast outlines the clean-up following the mini “Nor-nor’easter” that dominated the shortened work week (peaked in size Wednesday). The overcast/fog will burn off and wind will finally let up some in the afternoon on Turkey Day, then clock around to the south on Black Friday and go hard offshore during the post holiday weekend, cleaning up the lingering leftovers.