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Delaware City, DE Daily Water Report — August 24, 2026

Delaware City gets the kind of water day that favors hulls and paddles, not anyone waiting on a ride. Current and forecast weather from Open-Meteo put representative wind at only 4 knots from the west-northwest, with the day’s breeze ranging 2.3 to 8.8 knots and the strongest gust, 14.6 knots, due around 15:00. The marine forecast shows no wave or swell energy, ocean current is slack, and rain is not indicated. Those are the inputs behind the boating and kayaking scores—wind, waves, current, and precipitation, plus cloud cover for boats—and they land at 9.2 and 8.6. Both sit above Sunday’s 8.9 and 7.8 and Saturday’s 8.1 and 7.9. Treat the numbers as suitability, not a safety stamp. The same quiet is the tradeoff. Surfing is 4.5 because wave height, period, and swell give it nothing to work with, and marine guidance keeps that flat look through the week. Sailing is a modest 6.3: light, limited wind even under a cloudless sky. Fishing is a middling 5.6 from solunar timing, tide state, pressure, wind, and available clarity, a point softer than yesterday’s 6.6. Pressure is 1015 hPa and rising through 1013.1 to 1018.0, orderly rather than punchy. The better fishing windows, such as they are, sit on the major solunar periods, 07:58–09:58 into the 1.53-meter high at 09:26 and 19:58–21:58 toward the 1.86-meter evening high at 21:44. Minor periods bracket the early and midafternoon lows. Air starts near 16.1 C and climbs toward 26.6 C, with a representative 18 C under clear skies. Ocean SST is 24.8 C, 0.6 C below average; the marine forecast lists 27.6 C. Atmospheric visibility is 16.4 km—that is air, not a reading of the water column. Chlorophyll is very high at 11.75 mg/m3, bloom conditions, a water-quality note only. Diving holds at 7.6 on wind, waves, available clarity, and temperature, matching the last two days. Wildlife is 6.2 from solunar timing, low-tide proximity, and wind, down from yesterday’s 7.0. Tide lows are 0.25 m at 03:44 and 0.22 m at 15:36. Sun runs 05:23 to 18:49; a waxing gibbous moon, 84 percent lit, rises at 16:59. Tuesday and Wednesday stay quiet and nearly dry, peak winds 6.2 and 8.2 knots, waves still forecast at zero. Thursday and Friday bring 64 and 57 percent rain chances and a bit more breeze Thursday. Best bet: put a boat or kayak on this still, rainless water before the week turns wet.