North-Carolina Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

North-Carolina 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 North-Carolina region.

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North-Carolina Wavefinder

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	Thursday 26			Friday 27			Sat				Sun		Monday 30			Tue				Wed		Thu
	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	Night	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	Night	PM	Night	AM
Best forecast wave conditions in North-Carolina	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	2nd Beach Rhode Island	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Grand Marias Lake Superior	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Alabama Point Alabama	Chicahauk Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Fort Fisher Carolina North	Oceanic Pier Carolina North	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Union Bay Lake Superior	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Alabama Point Alabama	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Higgins Beach Maine	Cupsogue Long Island NY
Rating	3	2	3	1	3	2	2	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	3	3	4	2	0	2	2	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 ENE	1.4 SSE	2.5 SSW	1.2 S	2.5 SSW	1.7 SSW	2.1 WNW	1.0 N	0.7 N	0.9 E	1.1 ENE	1.0 E	0.9 ESE	1.1 SE	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 E	1.2 E	0.9 SE	1.2 E	0.9 E	2.0 S
Period(s) (?)	8	5	9	8	10	10	7	8	6	4	7	7	7	7	8	10	8	8	6	8	7	8
Energy(?)	750	109	1462	207	1270	654	456	191	72	33	106	181	106	125	935	1313	827	296	56	266	113	509
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross	on	cross- on	on	cross	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- off	on	cross- off	cross	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		2:44PM 0.89	3:34AM 1.41		4:02PM 0.84		5:54AM 0.81			6:22AM 1.83	5:53PM 1.43	7:01PM 1.55	6:38AM 1.09	6:58PM 1.09		8:01AM 1.62		8:18PM 1.67	8:37AM 1.60		8:55PM 1.70	9:17AM 1.61
Low Tide / height (m)	3:54AM -0.08		8:41PM 0.04	10:05AM 0.08		11:22PM 0.04		5:32AM -0.04	12:15AM 0.22	12:53PM 0.04		1:06AM 0.36	12:48PM -0.01		1:19AM -0.01		2:04PM 0.21	2:31AM 0.22		2:42PM 0.22		3:10AM 0.18
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	risk thund- der	light snow	heavy rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	clear	cloudy	some clouds
Rain (mm)	4	12	14	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	18	3	8	11	2	-2	-3	-7	-9	19	10	16	17	18	8	3	2	17	21	18	14	15
Low °C	18	1	4	6	2	-10	-3	-8	-10	16	8	16	16	18	6	3	1	16	21	18	3	12
Chill °C (?)	17	-2	4	9	-3	-8	-10	-15	-16	18	8	16	17	18	4	-2	-3	16	21	18	12	13
Sunrise	7:15	-	-	6:37	-	-	7:31	-	-	-	-	-	7:01	-	-	6:56	-	-	-	-	-	6:33
Sunset	-	7:21	-	-	7:32	-	-	7:23	-	-	7:21	-	-	7:30	-	-	8:24	-	-	7:37	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.5 NNE	0.3 NNW	2.0 S	1.2 S	2.5 SSW	1.7 SSW	-	0.6 SE	0.5 SE	-	1.1 ENE	1.0 E	0.9 ESE	1.1 SE	-	2.5 SSW	-	0.9 NE	-	1.2 E	0.9 E	-
Period (s)	9	8	8	8	10	10	-	9	8	-	7	7	7	7	-	10	-	8	-	8	7	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 NW	0.1 E	0.1 SE	0.1 E	-	0.9 SE	-	0.4 SE	-	-	0.1 E	0.3 ESE	0.3 ESE	-	-	-	-	0.2 NNE	-	0.7 NE	0.1 E	-
Period (s)	7	13	13	10	-	9	-	8	-	-	14	10	9	-	-	-	-	13	-	9	10	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.9 ENE	1.4 SSE	2.5 SSW	0.3 N	0.5 NW	0.5 N	2.1 WNW	1.0 N	0.7 N	0.9 E	-	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	-	2.5 SSW	0.6 WNW	2.5 E	1.2 E	0.9 SE	-	0.7 SSE	2.0 S
Period (s)	8	5	9	2	3	3	7	8	6	4	-	7	6	-	8	4	8	8	6	-	6	8

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	10PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	3PM	6PM	7PM	0AM	2AM	5AM	9AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM
Best forecast wave conditions in North-Carolina	Alabama Point Alabama	Corolla Lighthouse Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Alabama Point Alabama	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Fernandina Beach Pier Florida - North	Jones Beach State Park Long Island NY	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	2nd Beach Rhode Island	2nd Beach Rhode Island	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia
Rating	0	1	1	1	1	3	3	0	2	1	2	3	1	1	1	2	3	2	2	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.5 SE	0.7 ENE	0.8 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.7 ENE	1.7 E	1.3 NNE	0.1 SE	1.5 SE	0.7 E	1.6 S	2.1 S	0.7 ENE	1.1 S	1.0 S	1.5 S	1.7 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW
Period(s) (?)	5	9	6	6	9	8	9	4	8	7	8	9	9	8	8	9	10	9	9	9	9	9
Energy(?)	12	88	60	50	97	647	534	2	307	60	289	640	91	167	133	390	654	447	328	270	221	172
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	on	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass	cross- on	off	cross- off	off	off	glass	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	glass
Tide State(?)	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	high	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	low	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)			2:22AM 1.45				4:02PM 0.67	5:49PM 0.30			3:03AM 1.42				4:05PM 0.88				5:07AM 1.46
Low Tide / height (m)					8:54AM 0.12			5:04PM 0.30	9:41PM 0.18				10:19AM 0.10	11:09AM 0.09			10:58PM 0.52				11:36AM 0.31
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	light rain	cloudy	clear	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	19	16	18	18	17	19	19	20	4	20	13	5	23	7	6	-3	-6	-9	-10	-10	-6	-4
Chill °C (?)	19	15	18	18	16	19	19	20	0	20	11	1	23	3	3	-10	-14	-17	-17	-17	-10	-4
Sunrise	-	-	-	7:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:01	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:34	7:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:04	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.5 SE	0.7 ENE	0.8 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.7 ENE	1.7 E	1.5 E	0.1 SE	1.5 SE	0.7 E	1.6 S	2.1 S	0.7 ENE	1.1 S	1.0 S	1.5 S	1.7 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW
Period (s)	5	9	6	6	9	8	8	4	8	7	8	9	9	8	8	9	10	9	9	9	9	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.1 SE	0.3 ESE	0.3 ESE	0.6 ESE	1.4 NNE	1.3 NNE	-	0.1 N	0.2 E	0.1 E	-	0.2 ESE	0.1 E	-	-	0.9 SE	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.7 SE	0.6 SE
Period (s)	-	8	8	8	5	9	9	-	6	11	9	-	7	9	-	-	9	9	8	8	8	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	0.4 SW	-	-	0.2 SSE	0.4 SW	-	-	-	-	0.3 N	0.2 N	0.5 NNW	0.5 N	0.6 N	0.6 N	0.4 NNE	0.2 NNE	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	2	3	-	-	-	-	3	3	3	3	4	4	3	3	-

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	8PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	3AM	4AM	3AM	6AM	6AM	7AM	9AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM
Best forecast wave conditions in North-Carolina	Alabama Point Alabama	Corolla Lighthouse Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Alabama Point Alabama	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Fernandina Beach Pier Florida - North	Jones Beach State Park Long Island NY	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	2nd Beach Rhode Island	2nd Beach Rhode Island	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia
Rating	0	1	1	1	1	3	3	0	2	1	2	3	1	1	1	2	3	2	2	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.5 SE	0.7 ENE	0.7 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.8 ENE	2.2 NE	2.2 NE	0.4 SE	0.4 NNW	1.1 E	1.0 S	1.1 S	1.1 ENE	1.0 SSW	1.2 SSW	2.2 S	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW
Period(s) (?)	5	9	6	6	9	8	8	5	9	7	5	5	8	6	6	6	7	7	8	8	8	8
Energy(?)	12	79	50	50	132	680	680	6	42	124	57	73	146	67	87	408	1022	1022	1095	1227	1349	1274
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- off	glass	cross	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	cross	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)							3:31AM 0.82												3:39PM 1.37
Low Tide / height (m)															10:07AM 0.12
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	clear	cloudy	light rain	clear	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	4	4	5	2	-	1	-
High °C	18	16	18	18	17	18	18	19	-7	20	9	4	22	7	7	5	5	5	6	5	5	4
Chill °C (?)	18	15	18	18	16	17	17	19	-12	20	6	-1	22	3	3	0	0	-1	0	-1	0	-1
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:32
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.5 SE	0.7 ENE	0.7 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.8 ENE	0.3 NW	0.3 NW	0.4 SE	0.4 NNW	1.1 E	0.2 E	0.2 ESE	1.1 ENE	-	-	0.2 ESE	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S
Period (s)	5	9	6	6	9	7	7	5	9	7	10	9	8	-	-	10	13	13	13	13	13	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.3 ESE	0.2 ESE	0.2 ESE	0.2 ESE	0.1 W	0.1 W	-	0.4 NW	0.1 E	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 E	0.1 E	-	0.1 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	4	8	8	8	7	7	-	4	13	8	13	13	10	-	13	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	0.5 SE	2.2 NE	2.2 NE	-	-	-	1.0 S	1.1 S	-	1.0 SSW	1.2 SSW	2.2 S	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	5	8	8	-	-	-	5	5	-	6	6	6	7	7	8	8	8	8

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Delaware	Massachusetts	Nova-Scotia
Iceland	New-Hampshire	Pennsylvania
Maine	New-Jersey	Rhode-Island
Maryland	New-York

British-Columbia	Minnesota	Washington
California	Oregon

Anguilla	Grenada	Puerto Rico
Aruba	Guadeloupe	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Barbados	Haiti	Saint Lucia
Bermuda	Martinique	Trinidad and Tobago
British Virgin Islands	Montserrat	US Virgin Islands
Dominican Republic	Netherlands Antilles	Venezuela

Alabama	Georgia-USA	Nicaragua
Belize	Guatemala	Panama
Costa Rica	Honduras	Texas
El Salvador	Louisiana
Florida	Mexico

Alabama	Lake Huron Canada	New Jersey
Bermuda	Lake Huron United States	North Carolina
Cape Breton Island	Lake Michigan	North Florida
Delaware	Lake Ontario Canada	Nova Scotia
Eleuthera Bahamas	Lake Ontario United States	Rhode Island
Florida	Long Island New York	South Carolina
Georgia	Louisiana	South Florida
Great Abaco Bahamas	Maine	Texas
Gulf Coast Florida	Maryland	Turks and Caicos Islands
Lake Erie Canada	Massachusetts	US East Coast
Lake Erie United States	New Hampshire	Virginia

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