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Bay Waveland Yacht Club, MS Daily Water Report — August 24, 2026

Boating and kayaking own the day at Bay Waveland Yacht Club. Forecast winds start light, seas stay nearly flat, and scores of 8.9 and 8.1 put hulls and paddles well ahead of everything else. That is a suitability ranking, not a safety stamp. Surfing remains a 4.5 on tiny, short-period energy, sailing only a 5.6 because the breeze is more suggestion than drive until it builds, fishing a modest 5.8, diving a steady 6.8, and wildlife a 6. The cleanest window is morning. High tide is 0.67 m at 09:11, overlapping a major solunar period from 08:54 to 10:54, under about 15 percent cloud and a representative west-northwest wind near 2 knots, gusting only to 7. Open-Meteo has the day’s wave range at 0.0–0.1 m, with swell around 0.1 m at under 2 seconds from the south-southwest and a 0.6 m/s current setting toward 236 degrees. Air runs 24.8–35.7 C and already feels like the mid-30s at the representative reading, so heat is the price of the calm. Atmospheric visibility is 19.6 km; that is not underwater clarity. NOAA CoastWatch marine surface temperature is a bath-warm 32.6 C, about 0.4 C above average, with chlorophyll very high at 28.12 mg/m3 in bloom conditions—water color, not a wildlife or bite call. Pressure is rising near 1017 hPa. Afternoon is the tradeoff. The strongest gust, 23.5 knots, is timed at 16:00, inside a rain window through 19:00, with winds able to reach the low teens. Low tide falls to 0.07 m at 20:31, another major solunar stretch runs 20:54–22:54, and the calmest waves arrive near 22:00 at 0.04 m—fine for a late, quiet paddle if the shower has passed, useless if you wanted a rideable face. Versus yesterday’s reconstructed scores, boating eases from 9.4 and kayaking from 8.9; fishing slips from 6.6, and from 7.1 on the 22nd. Diving is unchanged; surfing has sat at 4.5 all three days. Tuesday through Thursday bring 45–65 percent rain chances, slightly stronger peak winds, and still tiny seas. Friday and the weekend ease both the breeze and the shower odds while waves stay essentially flat. Best bet: take the morning flood in a boat or kayak and be off the water before the four-o’clock gust-and-shower act.