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Copano Bay, TX Daily Water Report — August 24, 2026

Boating is the call on Copano Bay today, an 8.5 that outranks a still-useful 7.8 for diving, 7.3 for sailing, and 7.2 for kayaking while surfing sits at a meek 4.5 on water that will not stand up. Open-Meteo’s current and forecast fields put a representative south breeze near 6 knots, with the day’s range only 2.3 to 12.2 knots until a 16.7-knot gust arrives around 20:00. Waves stay in a 0.2-to-0.4-meter band and reach their calmest near noon at 0.18 meters with a short 3.25-second period; swell is a 0.16-meter ripple from the south-southeast. NOAA’s tide barely shrugs, from a 0.00-meter low at 00:19 to a 0.12-meter high at 13:54. A 0.4 m/s current sets toward the north-northeast. That midday quiet is the cleanest window to run a boat or slide a kayak: light air, the day’s smallest sea, thin 23 percent cloud, and a high tide that at least puts a little more water under you. Sailing can live with the same light, fairly consistent breeze, though anyone wanting a real press of wind will wait until late afternoon and then accept that evening gust. Heat is the tax. Air sits near 32.1 C and feels like 39 C under a 7.25 UV index, humidity around 67 percent, dew point 25.2 C. Atmospheric visibility is a wide 23.6 kilometers, which says nothing about what you can see underwater. Marine sea-surface temperature is 30.3 C, 0.8 C cooler than average. No rain is indicated, and pressure is 1016 hPa and rising. Fishing and wildlife both land at 6, a step down from CatchWindow’s last two days. Fishing’s score leans on solunar timing, tide state, pressure, wind, and available clarity; wildlife’s on solunar, low-tide proximity, and wind. The stronger solunar majors run 09:26–11:26 and 21:26–23:26, with minors around 03:56 and 15:56. The only true low tide was overnight. Versus 23 August, when boating was 8 and kayaking 6.2 in an 8.7-knot breeze, today’s lighter air lifts both, while sailing has eased from 8.5 and fishing from 6.4. Diving has held 7.8 across all three dates. The coming week stays hot, with peak winds 12 to 15 knots, waves mostly 0.1 to 0.5 meters, and rain chances remaining single digits until the 28th. Best bet: take the boat through the noon calm, be in before that 20:00 gust, and treat the heat as the real hazard.