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Reporter: T. Strange 

10:30 am:   The surf dropped from yesterday and it has dropped more since this morning.   Dropped like a rock, actually.   Way smaller now.  Clean and glassy with offshore winds… and a super nice day a the beach, but the swell is pretty much over.  Some knee high range clean lines.  Will we get a bounce back?    You can watch the waves on our live surf cam page and see….

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2:05 pm:    New afternoon photos are up in box #2 and you can see it way smaller than yesterday.    Small overall, but a slight bounce back in size since the mid morning look with some knee high to thigh high waves .    There is some groundswell on the local buoy… and this may be from one of the distant storms we had at sea last week.  If so, this swell will hang around the res of the day.   The Ophelia Swell is over, since the swell source is long gone now.

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7:45 pm:   Small choppy surf this evening.    A pic and video are here on our surf report instagram.   It was a beautiful sunset! 

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We are getting ready for fall with new O’Neill wetsuit tops just in.    Here are the Vests, here are short sleeve tops , and here are Long Sleep Tops .   These 3 types of O’Neill wetsuit tops are available both online and in store.  Come by the shop and check them out! 

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Check out our new Vilano Cam.   Actually it’s a little north of North Beach, located just south of Fire Station #9, South Ponte Vedra (SPV).   Here is the link: New Cam

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Here is the overview wind map,  tropical Atlantic Map and here is the Map centered on St. Augustine. Click.on the link, then zoom out to see wind speed/direction and the fetch that generates our waves. Here is the weekly weather forecast for St.Augustine Beach, and the 5-day NWS Marine Forecast for Northeast Florida coastal waters. September (so far) has seen a decent run of tropical-origin sizeable surf. Dean’s 7-Day Surf Forecast details the decent lingering swell Saturday with lighter offshore wind, then diminishing surf from Ophelia on Sunday after it slams the Outer Banks, with a look ahead to the next swell building late in the work week compliments of the gradient between high pressure and a coastal low off Hatteras.