7:00 am:  Very cool to cold conditions again on this Thursday morning with waves at 1 to 1.5 feet early. The wind is chilly W at 8-11 mph. The marine forecast is calling for W winds today. Our local buoy is currently reading 2.3 feet at 8 seconds down in size from yesterdays  3.6 feet at 6 seconds.  Our local buoy came in with a water temp of 68.2 early. You can see the ocean live by viewing The Surf Station Cam Page here.

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.