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Charleston, OR Daily Water Report — August 27, 2026

Good day for surfing, diving, or a paddle, but pick your window carefully because a warm, foggy morning will steal visibility and dampen the breeze before a late-day gust kicks up. The top scores here are surfing and diving, both landing at 7.9 out of 10, and they lean on a northwest swell running just under a meter with a 6.5-second interval and a light wind out of the north-northeast. That’s clean enough for a surf session, and the water is a balmy 15.5°C, a full 2.3 degrees above average for late August, which makes a wet suit optional or at least comfortable for a longer dive. The catch is that atmospheric visibility is a lousy 0.1 kilometers under 100% cloud cover, so don’t expect a view from the shore or from a boat deck; the air is thick. Underwater, the story is separate, but the high chlorophyll reading at 1.33 mg/m³ is not a fish forecast, just an indicator of plankton, so leave the bait calls alone. Boating at 7.5 and kayaking at 7.4 are both solid after the calmest stretch around midnight, but by midday the wind nudges up to nearly 8 knots, and the strongest gust hits 13.6 knots at 8 p.m. That’s a late-afternoon shift worth watching if you’re in a small craft. Yesterday your kayaking scored a 9, and boating hit 8.5, so today is a step down from that near-perfect window, but it still beats the choppy 4.7 and 6 from two days ago. Sailing at a 6 is workable only if you enjoy light air; that 6-knot representative wind is uninspiring for a proper run. Fishing sits at 6.6, and the solunar minor period from 6:11 to 7:11 a.m. aligns with dawn at 6:36, which is your best bet, but the midday major from 11:41 to 1:41 p.m. fights the rising wind. No tide data is available today, so don’t lean on that for timing. Wildlife scores a 7.1, worth a look during the early calm. Looking ahead, Friday holds similar wave heights but a lighter peak wind near 12 knots, keeping conditions pleasant. Saturday and Sunday see waves building to over a meter, and early next week a front approaches, with rain odds climbing to 25% by Monday and a stiff 21-knot wind likely on Tuesday. Your best move today is the early morning flat water before the breeze and fog collaborate to close the view.