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Haha do you just make these up?

More like East 15 knt on Sat...

NO. They come cut and paste from NOAA.

Apalachee Bay:

Friday: Northeast wind 5 to 10 knots. Seas 1 to 2 feet. Protected waters smooth.
Saturday: Northeast wind 5 to 10 knots. Seas 1 to 2 feet. Protected waters smooth.
Sunday: Northeast wind around 10 knots. Seas 1 to 2 feet. Protected waters smooth.


Off Carrabelle:

Friday: East wind around 15 knots becoming 10 to 15 knots in the afternoon. Seas 3 to 4 feet. Protected waters a light to moderate chop.
Saturday: East wind 10 to 15 knots. Seas 3 to 4 feet subsiding to 2 to 3 feet in the late morning and afternoon. Protected waters a light to moderate chop.
Sunday: East wind 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 4 feet. Protected waters a light to moderate chop.

I don't understand why several of you have such a hard time understanding the INSHORE part of these reports.
Here is the report for Carrabelle/Lanark thru Sunday night.
Tonight: ENE wind 5 to 10 kt. Mostly cloudy. Seas 1 ft or less.

Friday: E wind 5 to 10 kt. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.

Friday Night: Variable winds 5 kt or less. Mostly clear. Seas 1 ft or less.

Saturday: Variable winds 5 kt or less. Sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.

Saturday Night: Variable winds 5 kt or less. Mostly clear. Seas 1 ft or less.

Sunday: E wind 5 to 10 kt becoming variable and less than 5 kt in the afternoon. Mostly sunny. Seas around 1 ft.

Sunday Night: Variable winds less than 5 kt becoming E 5 to 10 kt after midnight. Mostly clear. Seas 1 ft or less.

I don't understand why you keep posting forecasts from a site that:

...has been operating in a degraded status since contract support for the site ended last year. In addition, the operating platform and data layers are outdated and thus are no longer reliable.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification ... portal.htm

Moreover, those forecasts will no longer be available after November 30th. My apologies if that is not your source.

Because hey can not find the same forecast on the Tally NWS website. http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... 2197265625

If you go to this link you can zoom in on the map where ever you want and then double click the map to get specific marine forecast.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/point.htm

This is the more general forecast.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tae/?n=marine

I think this is pretty good site for wave prediction for the big bend area.
http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display.cgi?a=appal_sea
Someone posted it here a while back I think.

Yes. This is the marine map I have used for 6 years . http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/point.htm It is correct on a 90% basis.
More specifically this page: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... ype=marine

BeachRum1962 wrote:I don't understand why you keep posting forecasts from a site that:

...has been operating in a degraded status since contract support for the site ended last year. In addition, the operating platform and data layers are outdated and thus are no longer reliable.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification ... portal.htm

Moreover, those forecasts will no longer be available after November 30th. My apologies if that is not your source.

They are NOT from that site.
AND Saturday INSHORE will not be 10-15.

Jumptrout51 wrote: They are NOT from that site.
AND Saturday INSHORE will not be 10-15.

Good deal then b/c I will be coastal. My experience has been that the NOAA zone and point forecasts are iffy especially more than one day out.

The specific location (ie your inshore) forecasts are not accurate.

The most accurate, if we can call a NOAA forecast accurate, is the out 20NM region ones. With the exception of shelter from a certain wind direction inshore, the winds are usually the same whether offshore or inshore. The notorious afternoon sea breeze near the shore is another exception to the difference to inshore and off.

Slight increase prediction.........

Today: Variable winds 5 kt or less. Mostly sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.

Tonight: E wind 5 to 10 kt. Partly cloudy. Seas 1 ft or less.

Saturday: ENE wind 5 to 10 kt. Mostly sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.

Saturday Night: ENE wind 5 to 10 kt. Partly cloudy. Seas 1 ft or less.

Sunday: ENE wind 5 to 10 kt. Mostly sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.

Sunday Night: ENE wind 5 to 10 kt. Partly cloudy. Seas 1 ft or less.

I like JT's optimistic forecasts. sometimes he is "spot-on".

Well,Beachrum1962, did it blow you away today??