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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Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Sun	Monday 16			Tue		Wed				Thursday 19			Friday 20			Saturday 21			Sunday 22
	Night	AM	PM	Night	PM	Night	AM	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night
Best forecast wave conditions in Virginia	Holden Beach Carolina North	Wildwood Crest New Jersey	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	The Wall New Hampshire	Assateague Maryland	Chicahauk Carolina North	Egg Island Eleuthera	Egg Island Eleuthera	Indicas Great Abaco	Egg Island Eleuthera	Bogue Pier Carolina North	Sandbanks Provincial Park Lake Ontario	Wolfe Island Lake Ontario	Wolfe Island Lake Ontario	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama
Rating	2	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	0	0	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.6 S	1.2 ENE	1.0 S	2.0 ENE	1.6 E	1.6 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.4 E	0.8 E	1.0 ENE	1.6 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.1 NE	1.2 NNE	1.6 SSW	1.4 SW	2.1 WSW	2.2 W	1.0 S	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.3 S
Period(s) (?)	8	7	9	10	8	8	10	11	12	12	12	13	13	13	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7
Energy(?)	331	116	203	829	479	330	868	491	229	372	743	901	488	537	194	122	385	508	92	36	23	11
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- on	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	off	off	cross- off	off	off	off	off
High Tide / height (m)	9:16PM 0.30	7:10AM 1.94	6:35PM 1.33	7:34PM 1.62	7:04AM 1.58		7:35PM 1.24	7:39AM 1.30		8:49PM 0.72	8:22AM 1.04		8:46PM 1.03	9:05AM 0.99		10:50AM 1.63		11:13PM 1.75	11:39AM 1.54		12:18AM 1.22	11:56AM 1.32
Low Tide / height (m)				2:01AM -0.12		1:25PM 0.23	1:37AM -0.12		1:53PM -0.27	3:09AM -0.11		2:34PM -0.22	2:59AM -0.16		3:16PM -0.22		4:56PM 0.20		5:33AM 0.21	5:44PM 0.32		5:56AM 0.64
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	cloudy	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	snow shwrs	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	16	1	8	2	0	-4	2	3	14	17	24	24	24	24	21	-6	-7	-5	17	13	15	11
Low °C	8	1	7	2	0	-4	-1	2	13	14	23	24	23	23	20	-9	-9	-6	8	9	14	1
Chill °C (?)	15	-5	4	-3	-4	-10	-3	0	12	16	24	24	24	24	21	-14	-12	-10	16	10	13	8
Sunrise	-	6:48	-	-	-	-	7:13	6:35	-	-	6:39	-	-	6:37	-	-	6:56	-	-	6:24	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:50	-	5:49	-	-	-	5:40	-	-	6:02	-	-	5:54	-	-	5:43	-	-	5:43	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.6 S	-	1.0 S	2.0 ENE	1.6 E	1.6 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.4 E	0.8 E	1.0 ENE	1.6 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.1 NE	1.2 NNE	0.2 ESE	-	-	-	1.0 S	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.3 S
Period (s)	8	-	9	10	8	8	10	11	12	12	12	13	13	13	12	-	-	-	7	7	7	7
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	0.6 SSE	0.6 SE	0.6 S	-	0.5 SSW	0.2 SSE	0.4 E	0.6 SSE	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.7 ESE	0.5 E	0.1 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SW
Period (s)	-	-	9	9	12	-	10	9	14	8	7	7	7	7	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.2 ENE	1.1 NE	-	-	-	0.4 SW	0.3 WNW	1.1 S	0.6 WSW	-	-	-	-	1.6 SSW	1.4 SW	2.1 WSW	2.2 W	-	0.6 N	0.7 N	0.7 N
Period (s)	-	7	8	-	-	-	3	3	6	4	-	-	-	-	6	6	7	7	-	3	4	4

	Sun	Monday 16								Tuesday 17								Wednesday 18
	9PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Virginia	Alabama Point Alabama	Hunting Island Carolina South	Holden Beach Carolina North	Fernandina Beach Pier Florida - North	Holden Beach Carolina North	Holden Beach Carolina North	Wildwood Crest New Jersey	Columbia St Carolina North	Ocean Isle Beach/pier Carolina North	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island
Rating	0	3	2	1	2	1	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.0 S	2.1 S	1.6 S	0.8 SE	1.2 S	1.0 S	1.8 ENE	1.1 ENE	0.9 ENE	1.1 ENE	1.9 ENE	1.7 ENE	1.7 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.7 ESE	1.9 ESE	2.2 ESE	2.2 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.8 ESE	1.8 ESE
Period(s) (?)	7	8	8	7	9	8	8	8	8	11	10	10	10	10	11	9	9	11	11	10	10	11
Energy(?)	170	779	354	64	210	140	539	280	237	509	790	672	607	589	511	627	926	1483	1260	1019	933	770
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	off	off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)								6:30PM 1.07					7:07AM 1.06				8:36PM 1.61				9:25AM 1.28
Low Tide / height (m)		12:40AM -0.03				12:49PM 0.29	1:02PM -0.03								1:24PM -0.16				2:35AM 0.27
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	15	15	11	15	8	10	1	10	8	5	2	2	4	9	13	-2	-4	-6	-4	-3	-1	-1
Chill °C (?)	13	14	8	14	4	7	-3	8	6	2	0	0	1	8	12	-6	-7	-10	-7	-8	-5	-3
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:01	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:45	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 S	1.5 S	1.6 S	0.8 SE	1.2 S	1.0 S	1.1 E	0.8 ENE	0.7 E	0.8 ENE	1.9 ENE	1.7 ENE	1.7 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.7 ESE	1.9 ESE	2.2 ESE	2.2 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.8 ESE	1.8 ESE
Period (s)	7	8	8	7	9	8	8	8	8	11	10	10	10	10	11	9	9	11	11	10	10	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.0 S	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 SSE	0.7 S	0.5 S	0.6 S	0.6 SE	0.5 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.9 S	0.8 SSE	1.0 SSE	0.5 SSW	0.8 SE	0.8 SE	0.2 E
Period (s)	7	-	-	-	-	-	9	8	8	8	9	9	9	8	8	11	13	12	10	16	15	18
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.6 NW	2.1 S	-	0.3 WNW	0.6 NNE	0.6 NE	1.8 ENE	1.1 ENE	0.9 ENE	1.1 ENE	-	-	-	-	0.3 SSW	-	-	-	-	-	0.3 NNW	0.3 NNW
Period (s)	3	8	-	2	4	5	8	8	8	11	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	3	3

	Sunday 15				Monday 16
	7PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Virginia	Alabama Point Alabama	Hunting Island Carolina South	Holden Beach Carolina North	Fernandina Beach Pier Florida - North	Holden Beach Carolina North	Holden Beach Carolina North	Wildwood Crest New Jersey	Columbia St Carolina North	Ocean Isle Beach/pier Carolina North	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island
Rating	0	3	2	1	2	1	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 S	1.5 S	1.5 S	1.1 SE	1.6 S	1.6 S	0.4 NE	-	1.6 S	1.9 S	1.7 NNE	1.9 NNE	2.0 N	2.2 NNE	2.2 NNE	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	1.0 ESE	1.0 ESE	1.0 ESE
Period(s) (?)	7	7	7	7	8	8	3	-	8	9	6	6	6	7	7	15	15	15	15	8	8	8
Energy(?)	81	218	211	114	542	331	3	0	354	550	395	495	500	557	583	9	10	10	10	117	117	116
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross
High Tide / height (m)												6:30AM 1.04
Low Tide / height (m)						12:03AM 0.21												1:48PM 0.21
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	light rain	light rain	clear	light rain	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	2	1	-	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	18	15	16	18	14	15	5	13	11	8	6	5	5	4	3	-2	-2	-2	-2	-1	-1	-3
Chill °C (?)	17	14	15	17	13	14	1	11	8	4	0	-1	-1	-2	-4	-6	-6	-6	-6	-4	-4	-6
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:27	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 S	-	-	1.1 SE	1.6 S	1.6 S	0.2 S	1.6 SSE	1.6 S	1.9 S	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	1.0 SE	1.0 SE	1.0 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	1.0 ESE	1.0 ESE	1.0 ESE
Period (s)	7	-	-	7	8	8	4	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.1 E	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 SW	0.1 SW	0.1 SW	0.1 SW	0.4 N	0.4 N	0.3 N
Period (s)	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	13	13	13	13	7	7	6	6	6	6	6
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.7 WNW	1.5 S	1.5 S	0.5 SW	1.5 S	-	0.4 NE	0.3 NW	-	0.5 NW	1.7 NNE	1.9 NNE	2.0 N	2.2 NNE	2.2 NNE	0.2 NNE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	-	-	-
Period (s)	4	7	7	4	7	-	3	2	-	3	6	6	6	7	7	3	3	3	3	-	-	-

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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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