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Seward, AK Daily Water Report — September 6, 2026

Diving owns the day around Seward, with boating and kayaking close enough to matter and surfing and sailing clearly not worth forcing. The water is small and the breeze is mostly polite, so the high scores belong to people who want to be on or under it rather than riding it. A soaked, low ceiling is the weather story. Cloud cover is total, rain is forecast from 03:00 through 23:00 even if the representative amount is only 0.8 millimeters, and atmospheric visibility is about two kilometers—foggy air, not a statement about what you can see underwater. Air temperature barely moves, 11.2 to 12.5 degrees, and the water sits at 12.2 degrees, a shade cooler than average. Pressure has already slipped to 1011 hectopascals and is still falling after yesterday’s 1019. None of that cancels a dive or a boat run, but it does make the day gray, wet, and short on scenery. The useful window is morning. Waves run only 0.2 to 0.3 meters and are calmest near 09:00 at 0.22 meters, lining up with the first major solunar period from 09:13 to 11:13. Representative wind is a light northwest 3 knots, with the day’s range staying under about 5 knots until a 21.8-knot gust shows up around 15:00—the one real tradeoff. After that, you are still looking at rain, a 100 percent overcast, and a later solunar period that does not start until 21:13, well after the 20:52 sunset. Current is a modest 0.4 meters per second. Fishing at 7.1 is a step down from 7.8 yesterday and 8.4 on the 4th; diving at 8.6 is holding the strong run of recent days, while boating and kayaking have eased only slightly from Friday and Saturday. Surfing and sailing remain stuck in the mid-fours, as they have through most of this quiet stretch. Tomorrow and Monday stay wet. Tuesday dries out with a 12-knot peak breeze, then the following days trend quieter and warmer with even smaller waves. Best bet: take the 09:00 calm and the morning solunar window for a dive or a boat run, and be buttoned up before that midafternoon gust.