Illinois Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

Illinois wave (swell) map for surfers, windsurfers and sailors showing open ocean wave size, wave period and wave energy. You can customize the wave and wind maps with overlays for wind arrows, pressure and general weather for surfing. There are also options to display live wind observations from ships, wave buoys and weather stations on the wave maps in the Illinois region.

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Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Thursday 21			Friday 22			Sat		Sun				Monday 25			Tuesday 26			Wednesday 27			Thu
	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	AM	PM	Night	Night	AM	PM	Night	PM	Night	Night	PM	Night	Night	PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Illinois	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Alabama Point Alabama	Celestino Sinaloa	Alabama Point Alabama	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur	Alabama Point Alabama	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Assateague Maryland	Seaside Heights/Casino Pier New Jersey	Cupsogue Long Island NY	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur	Punta Abreojos Baja Sur	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur	Kitty Hawk Pier Carolina North	Assateague Maryland	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur	17th Street Boardwalk Georgia
Rating	2	0	2	0	2	2	0	2	2	3	2	3	3	2	3	1	1	2	1	1	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction	0.6 S	0.5 SE	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSE	0.6 SW	0.9 SW	0.4 SSE	0.7 SW	1.5 E	1.8 ESE	1.7 SE	1.1 SSW	0.8 SW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.7 S	0.4 ESE	1.0 SSW	0.4 SE	0.5 SE	0.9 SSW	1.1 SE
Period(s)	13	5	15	4	15	16	5	16	9	9	8	16	14	15	15	7	7	14	8	8	14	8
Energy	296	12	495	13	294	439	9	326	484	515	487	633	507	474	554	75	41	392	54	46	293	237
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	on	glass	on	cross- off	glass	cross- on	off	off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)	1:14PM 1.06		11:10PM 1.38		3:01PM 1.05	2:06AM 1.56	12:28PM 0.20	4:29PM 1.13		3:03PM 1.38	3:35AM 0.91		5:47AM 1.51	6:01PM 1.35		5:12PM 1.08			5:44PM 1.19			7:07PM 2.28
Low Tide / height (m)						8:42PM 1.23	12:44PM 0.20		9:07AM 0.07		9:16PM 0.22	11:48PM 0.86	11:55AM 0.34		12:33AM 0.66		11:22PM 0.12	1:10AM 0.49		12:09AM 0.09	1:42AM 0.36
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	clear	risk thund- der	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	cloudy	light rain	light rain	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	risk thund- der	some clouds	clear	some clouds	light rain	clear	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	5	-	3
High °C	18	25	26	26	19	19	26	20	18	15	14	19	21	24	18	27	17	17	23	21	18	28
Low °C	16	25	24	26	19	16	26	19	18	15	11	17	18	20	16	25	16	15	20	20	15	25
Chill °C (?)	18	25	26	26	19	19	26	20	18	15	14	19	21	24	18	27	17	16	23	21	17	28
Sunrise	5:39	-	-	5:52	-	-	5:52	-	5:43	-	-	-	5:41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	7:39	-	-	7:13	-	-	7:13	-	8:12	-	-	-	7:14	-	8:09	-	-	8:14	-	-	8:22
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 S	-	0.8 SSW	-	0.6 SW	0.9 SW	0.4 SSE	0.7 SW	1.5 E	1.8 ESE	1.7 SE	1.1 SSW	0.8 SW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.5 E	0.4 SSE	1.0 SSW	0.5 S	0.5 SE	0.9 SSW	1.1 SE
Period (s)	13	-	15	-	15	16	5	16	9	9	8	16	14	15	15	8	6	14	6	8	14	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 SW	0.1 S	0.6 SSW	-	0.4 SSW	0.5 NW	-	0.4 S	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.9 S	0.8 WNW	0.6 SW	0.2 S	0.2 WNW	0.1 E	0.4 ESE	0.4 NW	0.4 SE	0.4 S	0.4 NW	-
Period (s)	15	9	18	-	12	11	-	10	18	18	7	5	17	10	10	15	7	13	8	6	12	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.4 WNW	0.5 SE	-	0.6 SSE	0.4 W	0.4 WNW	-	0.4 W	1.3 SSE	0.7 S	-	1.1 NW	0.6 WNW	1.2 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.7 S	-	0.9 WNW	-	-	0.9 WNW	0.8 SSE
Period (s)	4	5	-	4	12	3	-	3	6	6	-	5	6	5	5	7	-	5	-	-	5	8

	Thursday 21						Friday 22								Saturday 23
	8AM	11AM	4PM	8PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	2PM	4PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	2PM	4PM	8PM	8PM	11PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Illinois	Punta Abreojos Baja Sur	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Alabama Point Alabama	Cupsogue Long Island NY	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Hatteras Light House Carolina North	Alabama Point Alabama	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Celestino Sinaloa	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur	Union Bay Lake Superior	Alabama Point Alabama	Keweenaw Peninsula Lake Superior	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur
Rating	2	2	0	1	2	2	2	3	2	2	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	0	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction	0.6 SW	0.6 S	0.5 SE	0.4 SE	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	1.3 SSE	0.7 SSE	0.6 SW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	1.0 E	0.4 SSE	1.6 ESE	0.7 SW	0.9 SW
Period(s)	15	13	5	9	15	15	15	15	18	8	4	15	15	16	16	16	16	6	5	7	16	16
Energy	267	296	12	55	329	405	495	506	412	293	21	294	322	328	439	489	478	59	9	243	312	393
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	glass	cross- off	on	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- on	cross- off	glass	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	off	on	cross- off	off	cross- off
Tide State	low	mid-flow	high-ebb	low	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	low	high	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	-	high	-	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)							11:10PM 1.38			1:07PM 0.84	1:31PM 0.26	3:01PM 1.05				2:06AM 1.56		n/a n/a	1:52PM 0.20	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)	6:29AM 0.16			5:35PM 0.11					7:49AM 0.54					8:42PM 1.23				n/a n/a		n/a n/a		10:40PM 1.07
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	some clouds	light rain	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	risk thund- der	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	light rain	clear	cloudy	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	16	18	25	12	26	26	25	24	27	22	26	19	26	18	17	16	17	13	26	13	18	18
Chill °C (?)	16	18	25	12	26	26	25	24	27	22	26	19	26	18	17	16	17	12	26	12	18	18
Sunrise	5:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:45	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	8:06	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:31	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.5 SSW	0.6 S	-	0.5 S	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSE	0.1 S	0.6 SW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	-	-	-	0.7 SW	0.9 SW
Period (s)	13	13	-	6	15	15	15	15	14	6	9	15	15	16	16	16	16	-	-	-	16	16
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 SW	0.5 SW	0.1 S	0.4 SE	0.4 SW	0.5 SW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SE	-	0.4 SSW	0.4 SW	0.5 NW	0.5 NW	0.6 WNW	0.6 WNW	-	-	-	0.3 S	0.4 S
Period (s)	15	15	9	9	18	18	18	18	18	8	-	12	6	12	11	11	11	-	-	-	9	11
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.4 WNW	0.5 SE	0.5 E	-	-	-	-	-	1.3 SSE	0.7 SSE	0.4 W	-	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.5 NW	-	1.0 E	0.4 SSE	1.6 ESE	0.5 W	0.8 WNW
Period (s)	-	4	5	4	-	-	-	-	-	8	4	12	-	3	3	3	-	6	5	7	4	5

	Thursday 21	Friday 22
	6AM	7AM	10AM	12PM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	6PM	6PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	2AM	2AM	4AM	2AM	3AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Illinois	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Punta Abreojos Baja Sur	Alabama Point Alabama	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Cupsogue Long Island NY	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Cupsogue Long Island NY	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Scorpion Bay (San Juanico) Baja Sur	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa	Celestino Sinaloa
Rating	2	2	0	1	2	2	2	3	2	2	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	0	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SW	0.4 SE	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SE	0.6 S	0.6 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW
Period(s)	14	14	15	5	13	13	6	5	5	5	5	9	13	18	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Energy	593	425	267	8	296	296	64	13	12	12	10	55	368	380	329	371	405	405	405	495	495	495
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- off	glass	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	on	on	on	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)																			11:10PM 1.38
Low Tide / height (m)		6:26AM 0.39												6:21PM 0.71
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	25	26	16	25	17	18	13	25	25	25	25	12	18	18	26	26	26	26	25	25	25	25
Chill °C (?)	25	26	16	25	17	18	12	25	25	25	25	12	18	18	26	26	26	26	25	25	25	25
Sunrise	5:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:07	-	7:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.5 SSW	-	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	-	-	-	-	0.5 S	0.6 S	0.6 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW
Period (s)	14	14	13	-	13	13	6	-	-	-	-	6	13	18	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 SSW	0.4 SW	0.6 SW	0.1 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.4 SE	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.4 SE	0.4 SW	0.5 S	0.4 SW	0.4 SSW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW
Period (s)	19	19	15	5	15	15	9	9	9	9	6	9	15	13	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.4 SE	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.3 NE	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	0.4 SSE	0.5 E	0.5 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	5	4	4	3	5	5	5	5	4	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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