Chicago Breaks surfForecast / Lake Michigan / USA

information circle48hr Weather and Surf, issued 12 am Thursday 18 Sep 2025 CDT
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Chicago Breaks surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.
Today's Chicago Breaks sea temperature is
20.0° C
(Which is 1.3°C warmer than normal for this time of year)
Updates in  hr  min  s Forecast update imminent
Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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Swell
Height Map
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)
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Wave
Graph
(?)Metric surfscale
Energy kJ (?)000000000000000000000000
Wind
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5
ENE
10
ESE
5
S
5
S
5
SSE
5
ENE
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NE
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NE
10
NE
10
ENE
5
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5
ESE
10
ESE
10
ENE
5
NE
10
NW
5
N
5
S
5
NNW
10
ENE
10
E
10
E
10
SE
10
NE
Wind State (?)
onshore
cross-onshore
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offshore
glassy
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on
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Thursday
18
Friday
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Saturday
20
Sunrise---6:33-------6:33-------6:35----
Sunset------6:54-------6:52-------6:51-
clear
clear
clear
clear
clear
clear
clear
clear
clear
clear
clear
clear
clear
part cloud
cloud
cloud
part cloud
cloud
cloud
cloud
clear
part cloud
part cloud
rain showers
Rain (mm)
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Temp. °C222120202426272322212120242828262323232123262622
Feels °C (?)232120192325252222222119232728262424242122262623
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Eyeball surf reportRecent Eyeball Surf Reports for Lake Michigan

  1. weather stationWind Update Continuing clean conditions at Chicago Breaks (calm at BUOY-CMTI2 4 km from Chicago Breaks). not gfswave

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1 h 12 min ago

2 km/h
NE
Clean
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