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Chesapeake City, MD Daily Water Report — August 23, 2026

Chesapeake City draws a clear, nearly motionless day, and the call is simple: this is a high-confidence stretch for boating, kayaking, and diving, a workable one for sailing, and a wash for anyone hoping for surf. Open-Meteo has waves only 0.0 to 0.1 meters with a short 1.7-second period, a west wind generally 1.2 to 8.5 knots, and no rain. Boating leads at 9 out of 10 on that light air, flat water, slack marine current, dry forecast, and just 9 percent cloud cover. Kayaking sits at 8.2 on the same wind, wave, current, and precipitation mix. Diving holds at 8.4, matching yesterday, from the quiet surface, available clarity, and water temperature. Those scores describe suitability, not a safety stamp. The cleanest window runs from the NOAA morning high of 0.95 meters at 07:49 through the 0.17-meter afternoon low at 14:19. A solunar major from 07:06 to 09:06 sits on that flood, which is why fishing improves to 6.8 from yesterday’s 5.8—timing, tide state, a rising barometer near 1011 hPa, light wind, and available clarity, not a claim about what is biting. Wildlife is a modest 6.4 on solunar timing, that midafternoon low, and the easy breeze. Sailing is a 7: enough wind to move, almost no sea, and a bright sky, but not enough pressure to thrill. Surfing stays at 4.5, same as yesterday, because a 0.02-meter swell from the west-southwest is barely a ripple. The tradeoff arrives late. The strongest gust, 16.3 knots, is forecast at 18:00, just before the 0.93-meter evening high and the 19:06–21:06 solunar major, so the second fishing window comes with a bumpier edge. UV is 7.05 under a clear sky. Atmospheric visibility of 28.6 kilometers is not underwater visibility. NOAA CoastWatch has marine sea-surface temperature at 28.1 C, 0.4 C below average. Representative air is 26.3 C, ranging 19.3 to 27.5. Yesterday was cooler, with similar wind and a slightly higher 1014.4 hPa, and boats were already favored. Open-Meteo keeps waves tiny through the 29th, with light winds and little rain chance until the 27th and 28th, when odds rise above 50 percent and highs climb past 31 C. Best bet: take the boat or kayak between the morning high and the afternoon low, and plan to be settled before that 18:00 gust.