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East Bay, FL Daily Water Report — August 24, 2026

East Bay is a boat-and-paddle day, not a wave day. Boating leads at 8.9 and kayaking at 8.1, both riding the lightest air and flattest water on the board, while surfing sits at 4.5 on a surface that barely moves. Open-Meteo’s current and forecast mix has representative wind around 2 knots from the east-southeast, with the day only stretching from 1.2 to 6.6 knots. The afternoon is the exception: the strongest gust, 12.8 knots, is timed near 15:00. Marine waves stay 0.0 to 0.1 meters and are calmest near 09:00 at 0.04 meters, with a short 3-second period and a scrap of westerly swell. That same hush is why sailing only reaches 5.6—there is little to fill a sail, even under about 9 percent cloud and no rain in the forecast. Pressure holds near 1017 hPa and looks stable. Air is the real tax: a representative 25 C that feels like 30.7 C, humidity near 95 percent, dew point 24.2 C. Atmospheric visibility is 12.7 km; that is not underwater clarity. NOAA CoastWatch puts marine SST at 31.7 C, 1.4 C above average, and chlorophyll at 13.6 mg/m3 under very high bloom conditions. Diving scores 6.7 from wind, waves, available clarity, and water temperature—serviceable, not a showcase. Fishing is a middling 6.0, a step above yesterday’s 5.8 but short of the 6.8 on the 22nd. That score is built on solunar timing, tide, pressure, wind, and available clarity, not on the bloom. NOAA tides show a weak overnight high, a barely lower dawn low, a 0.87-meter high at 12:19, then a pronounced 0.08-meter low at 19:55. Solunar majors run 08:25–10:25 and 20:25–22:25. Wildlife sits at 6.2. A 0.6 m/s current toward the north-northeast is the other moving piece. Yesterday’s reconstructed scores were almost this quiet, with boating a touch lower at 8.5. The 22nd was the breezier contrast, when sailing reached 7.4 and kayaking only 6.8. The 25th stays milder, with a 19 percent rain chance and a 10.7-knot peak wind. After that, highs climb into the mid-30s C and rain chances rise into the 50–70 percent range through the 30th, while the marine forecast keeps waves essentially flat. Best bet: take the morning boat or kayak window while the water is still at its smallest and the afternoon gust has not yet arrived.