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Port Chicago, CA Daily Water Report — August 24, 2026

Sailing, boating, and diving take Port Chicago today. Forecast marine seas are flat from midnight on, cloud cover sits near 8 percent, and a usable westerly is enough to move a hull without stacking any wave height. Surfing stays at the bottom of the card because there is simply nothing to ride. Fishing is only middling, so the clocks are timing, not a guarantee, and none of these scores is a safety call. The sharpest weather of the day is early: the strongest gust, 18.3 knots, is forecast at 05:00, before the 06:31 sunrise. After that, winds are expected to live in a 6.6-to-10.6-knot band, with a representative 9-knot westerly and gusts near 12. That is the tradeoff with yesterday’s reconstructed day, when wind ran about 3.9 knots, boating reached 9.3, and kayaking 8.8 while sailing sagged to 6.1. Today’s breeze lifts sailing to 8.6 and keeps boating at 8.3; kayaking eases to 6.6. Diving holds at 8.2 on still water, available clarity inputs, and a CoastWatch sea-surface temperature of 22.4 C, 2.7 degrees above average. Atmospheric visibility is about 18 kilometers; that is air, not a view underwater. Tide range is the other clock. A near-zero low of 0.02 meters arrives at 07:12, then a 1.26-meter high at 13:21, a 0.70-meter low at 18:15, and a 1.49-meter high at 23:59. Fishing’s 5.6 leans on those stages, a rising 1013-hectopascal pressure, the wind, and solunar majors from 09:10 to 11:10 and 21:10 to 23:10. Wildlife, scored on solunar timing, low-tide proximity, and wind, lands at 6.6, down from yesterday’s 7.4. A 0.3-meter-per-second current setting toward the northeast is the remaining motion. Air should run from the mid-teens at dawn into the upper 20s this afternoon, with no rain indicated and a waxing gibbous moon rising at 17:28. The coming week stays dry and flat in the marine forecast, with afternoon heat building into the low 30s by midweek before easing and peak winds remaining near 9 to 11 knots. Best bet: let the predawn gust fade, then sail the clean westerly while the water is still a sheet.