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Conditions· Now

Sun, Nov 8

Small Craft Advisory

Rough

wind sea, moderate breeze.

Wind 13 kt WNWSunny49°F

0.5 ft

Waves

Small Craft Advisory in effect

Rest of today

Rough all day.

  1. Morning

    Rough

  2. Afternoon

    Rough

  3. Evening

    Rough

No good window

All day

Conditions remain rough all day.

Daily details

High temp

60°F

Water temp

62°F

Jellyfish

Low

Dawn

6:10 AM

Sunrise

6:38 AM

Sunset

4:57 PM

Dusk

5:25 PM

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Today, Sunday, November 8

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Sky

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Thunder

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Wind (kt)

13
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Seas (ft)

0.5
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Tide

Rough
Tide Details

About normal

Falling, turns in ~3 hHigh 3 PM · Low 9 AM

1.3 ft MLLW · Cambridge gauge, 0.7 nm away

Dashed line is the predicted tide; solid is what the gauge measured. The gap between them is the wind. Here it is about 0.5 ft, inside what this gauge counts as normal.

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