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Campbell River, BC Daily Water Report — August 24, 2026

Campbell River’s harbor is a boat-and-paddle day, not a wave day. Boating sits at 9.3 and kayaking at 8.9, with diving close behind at 8.3: the forecast surface is essentially flat, the breeze is mostly a whisper, and no rain is indicated. Fishing at 6.1 and wildlife at 6 are only middling, sailing at 5.6 is starved for air, and surfing at 4.5 has almost nothing to work with. Those scores describe suitability, not a safety clearance. Forecast wind for the day runs just 0.6 to 4.5 knots, with a representative 1 knot from the northwest and gusts around 3 through the body of the daylight hours. The outlier is a 14.4-knot gust at midnight, so the overnight hours are the one stretch that asks for extra caution or a later launch. Wave height is a token 0.02 meters and never really builds; the same scrap of north-northwest swell is all the marine forecast offers. A 0.4 m/s current setting toward 297 degrees is the main moving water to budget for in the harbor. Air should climb from the low 13s to about 24.5 C under roughly a third cloud cover and about 19 km of atmospheric visibility—not a stand-in for what you will see underwater. It will feel damper than the temperature at first, with humidity near 97 percent, then ease as the day warms. Pressure is 1020 hPa and falling. Water temperature is 15.2 C, about 1.2 C below average, while the marine forecast lists 17.6 C—still a cool immersion, which is part of why diving’s 8.3, driven by wind, waves, available clarity, and temperature, is strong on access and weak on comfort. Fishing’s 6.1 leans on solunar timing, tide, pressure, wind, and available clarity. Major periods run 4:23–6:23 and 16:23–18:23, around a 1.11 m low at 12:47 and the larger 3.75 m high at 8:05 p.m., after a 3.45 m high at 1:29 a.m. Light wind helps; falling pressure is the tradeoff inside that modest score. Wildlife uses the same solunar clock plus the midday low and the light air, and still only reaches 6. Against yesterday’s reconstructed scores, boating is up from 8.5 and kayaking from 8.7, fishing is off from 7.3, wildlife from 7.2, and diving is unchanged. Tuesday stays dry and light. Wednesday adds a little breeze and a slim rain chance; Thursday through Saturday turn wetter and windier before Sunday eases. Best bet: take a small boat or kayak across that sheet of harbor while it still is one.