Virginia Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

Virginia 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 Virginia region.

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	Wednesday 21			Thursday 22			Friday 23			Saturday 24			Sunday 25			Monday 26			Tuesday 27			Wed
	PM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	PM	Night	Night	PM	PM	Night	AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Virginia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Beauregard Carolina North	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	South Haven Lake Michigan	Port Aransas Texas	Cupsogue Long Island NY	St Augustine Beach Pier Florida - North	Shackleford Banks Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Hatteras Light House Carolina North	Triple S Pier Carolina North	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Higgins Beach Maine	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Assateague Maryland	Chicahauk Carolina North	Matagorda Texas
Rating	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	3	2	3	2	4	3	2	2	1	1	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 NNW	0.7 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.5 ESE	0.6 SE	0.5 ESE	0.5 ESE	2.4 NW	1.0 ESE	0.4 SE	1.0 E	2.3 E	1.8 ESE	2.0 SE	1.4 SE	2.2 ENE	2.2 E	1.6 ESE	1.2 S	0.5 ENE	0.9 NE	1.0 SE
Period(s) (?)	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	8	7	12	10	8	8	9	9	7	9	9	10	10	10	6
Energy(?)	169	86	63	85	90	80	64	674	114	48	404	601	398	728	411	491	1554	499	488	63	149	83
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- on	cross- off	off	cross	cross	glass	cross- on	cross- on	off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off
High Tide / height (m)			9:06PM 1.40	9:42AM 1.34		10:07PM 1.19	10:23AM 1.26	11:59PM 0.77	10:38PM 1.01	10:56AM 0.98		12:06AM 0.93	11:52AM 0.93		1:52PM 1.39			1:23AM 1.07		2:35PM 0.52	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)		3:06PM -0.15	3:06AM -0.03		3:53PM -0.10		4:04AM -0.05			4:53AM 0.04	5:08PM -0.04		5:52AM 0.08	6:53PM -0.07	7:48AM 0.35	7:52PM 0.39		7:07PM 0.02	8:24AM 0.08		n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	risk thund- der	some clouds	clear	heavy rain	light snow	cloudy	mod. snow	light snow	light snow	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	-8	13	7	9	16	5	3	-13	21	-12	19	12	0	12	2	-9	-8	-10	-8	-4	-2	17
Low °C	-9	12	5	6	15	0	1	-13	21	-13	18	3	-1	7	1	-10	-10	-13	-8	-6	-4	14
Chill °C (?)	-17	13	3	6	16	2	1	-24	21	-22	19	9	-6	9	-2	-18	-16	-17	-16	-11	-8	17
Sunrise	-	-	-	7:11	-	-	7:11	-	-	7:07	-	-	7:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:13
Sunset	4:47	5:30	-	-	5:24	-	-	5:46	-	-	5:54	-	-	5:22	-	5:13	-	-	5:20	5:16	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 NNW	0.7 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.7 S	0.6 SE	0.5 ESE	0.5 ESE	-	-	0.4 SE	0.7 E	-	1.8 ESE	2.0 SE	1.4 SE	0.1 E	2.2 E	1.6 ESE	1.2 S	0.5 ENE	0.9 NE	1.0 SE
Period (s)	10	10	10	5	10	10	10	-	-	12	10	-	8	9	9	15	9	9	10	10	10	6
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 SE	0.2 E	-	0.5 ESE	0.5 S	0.4 SSE	0.3 SSE	-	-	0.1 W	1.0 E	-	-	0.8 NE	-	-	1.7 S	0.7 SSE	1.1 E	0.2 ESE	0.1 E	-
Period (s)	10	3	-	10	5	6	6	-	-	5	10	-	-	7	-	-	11	10	9	11	18	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.1 W	-	1.2 S	0.4 WSW	-	0.4 N	-	2.4 NW	1.0 ESE	0.7 NNW	1.3 NE	2.3 E	-	0.6 WSW	1.3 SSW	2.2 ENE	1.3 NNE	0.6 N	0.4 WNW	0.6 W	0.6 WSW	0.6 NW
Period (s)	5	-	5	4	-	3	-	8	7	4	6	8	-	4	6	7	5	4	3	3	3	3

	Wednesday 21					Thursday 22								Friday 23								Sat
	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	8AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	5AM	8AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Virginia	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Long Beach Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Indicas Great Abaco	Assateague Maryland	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	South Haven Lake Michigan	South Haven Lake Michigan
Rating	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	1	1	3	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.6 SE	0.6 ESE	0.6 SE	0.7 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.7 ESE	2.0 E	0.5 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.5 ESE	1.7 E	0.5 ESE	0.8 SE	1.2 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.5 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.9 SE	1.8 NW	1.6 NW
Period(s) (?)	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	8	8	10	10	10	10	7	7
Energy(?)	85	79	80	89	87	85	95	931	85	90	72	542	73	110	227	208	64	77	95	137	305	220
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	low	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	-	-
High Tide / height (m)	9:34AM 0.79				9:24PM 1.13				9:21AM 1.08				9:51PM 0.99	10:37PM 0.67				10:05AM 1.03			n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)			3:00PM -0.02				3:16AM -0.08				3:51PM -0.09	4:16PM 0.14				5:04AM 0.33				5:23PM -0.07	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	rain shwrs	clear	clear	some clouds	risk thund- der	clear	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light snow	light snow
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
Temp. °C	5	4	12	13	14	14	12	19	6	9	10	23	5	13	-1	-3	1	3	5	7	-14	-16
Chill °C (?)	3	2	11	13	14	14	10	18	2	6	8	23	2	13	-6	-8	1	1	2	4	-20	-23
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:18	7:11	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:43	7:11	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:12	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 SE	0.6 ESE	0.6 SE	0.7 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.7 ESE	1.1 NW	0.7 S	0.6 ESE	0.5 ESE	1.7 E	0.5 ESE	0.8 SE	1.2 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.5 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.9 SE	-	-
Period (s)	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	8	5	10	10	10	10	10	8	8	10	10	10	10	-	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 SE	0.2 NNE	0.2 ENE	0.2 E	0.2 ESE	0.4 SE	0.6 SE	0.1 NE	0.5 ESE	0.5 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.3 NNE	0.5 S	0.2 SSW	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	11	5	3	3	3	4	5	13	10	6	6	6	6	4	11	11	6	6	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.2 ENE	-	0.2 E	0.2 SSE	0.4 SE	-	-	2.0 E	0.4 WSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 S	-	-	-	0.6 W	0.5 W	-	-	-	0.4 NNE	1.8 NW	1.6 NW
Period (s)	3	-	3	2	3	-	-	10	4	6	6	-	-	-	4	3	-	-	-	2	7	7

	Wednesday 21															Thursday 22
	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	4PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	11PM	0AM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Virginia	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Long Beach Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Indicas Great Abaco	Assateague Maryland	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	South Haven Lake Michigan	South Haven Lake Michigan
Rating	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	1	1	3	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.6 SE	0.6 ESE	0.6 SE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	1.7 NNW	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	2.4 E	0.6 ESE	0.6 SE	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.6 SE	3.5 WNW	3.5 WNW
Period(s) (?)	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	10	10	10	9	10	10	8	7	10	10	10	9	8	8
Energy(?)	63	72	50	51	54	55	58	367	84	84	84	878	65	88	164	148	64	63	61	106	1540	1490
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	glass	cross- off	on	on	cross- on	on	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- off	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	on	on
High Tide / height (m)		8:46AM 1.03													10:20PM 1.58						n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)									3:17PM -0.10												n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	4	2	8	9	10	10	11	17	3	3	4	22	5	16	0	0	7	7	7	13	-4	-4
Chill °C (?)	1	2	6	7	9	9	11	16	-3	-3	-1	22	0	15	-5	-5	3	3	3	11	-13	-13
Sunrise	7:11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 SE	0.6 ESE	0.6 SE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	1.7 NNW	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.4 NW	0.6 ESE	0.6 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.8 SSE	-	-
Period (s)	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	10	10	10	6	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	5	-	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 SW	0.3 NNE	-	-	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	1.1 ESE	0.3 SE	0.3 SE	0.3 SE	-	-	-	-	0.1 E	-	-	-	0.6 SE	-	-
Period (s)	4	5	-	-	7	7	7	10	11	11	11	-	-	-	-	11	-	-	-	9	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.3 NE	-	0.3 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 E	0.2 E	1.2 NE	1.0 S	1.0 S	1.1 S	2.4 E	1.3 S	0.7 S	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.3 S	1.2 S	1.2 SSW	0.3 WNW	3.5 WNW	3.5 WNW
Period (s)	3	-	3	3	3	3	3	5	4	4	4	9	5	4	8	7	5	5	5	3	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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