7:15 am: Continued cool conditions early with our local winds currently blowing out of the NNW @ 6 to 9 knots. The waves are looking to be in the 1 to 2 foot range with okay form. It’s looking drifty early, but not nearly as mixed up as we were seeing yesterday evening. The  marine forecast is calling for local winds to increase out of the NE to 20 to 25 knots by this afternoon. Our local buoy is currently reading 4.3 feet @ 8 seconds, down just a bit from yesterday’s early morning wave height reading of 4.9 feet at 6 seconds. The water temperature is measured offshore at 65.1 degrees early this morning. You can see the ocean live by viewing The Surf Station Cam Page here.

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1:00 pm:    New photos are up box #2 with the first 6 from mid morning and the remaining photos from 10th Street early this afternoon.  You can see it’s quite choppy and some occasional larger waves are pushing through.     Somewhat blown out but the good news is, the surf is on the increase.…

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1:15 pm:   Here is another video and audio YouTube surf report from the beach.

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Dean extended the Surf Station Surf Forecast through the end of 2024, with a long-shot call for a moderate-size, multi-day hyper-long period (14-15 sec) ground swell (with offshore winds) arriving to start the New Year.

Here is a good link to accurately track real-time, near-shore wave height/period/direction and water temperature just off the NE Florida coast: the Fernandina Beach buoy. Located upstream (to the north) and closer to the coast than the St. Augustine buoy, it’s a good indicator of fluctuations in NE Florida surf conditions influenced by winter cold fronts. 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.