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Enbridge, Ingleside, TX Daily Water Report — August 24, 2026

Boating is the call at Enbridge, Ingleside today, scoring 8.3 out of 10 on a dry, lightly breezed coastal setup that also keeps diving in good shape at 7.8. Sailing is a workable 7.3, kayaking 6.7, fishing and wildlife both a middling 6, and surfing trails at 4.8. Those ranks are suitability scores, not a safety stamp, and they rest only on the factors each method actually uses. Forecast and current conditions from Open-Meteo point to a representative south-southwest wind near 6 knots, gusting around 11, with a day range of about 6 to 13 knots. Seas hold 0.4 to 0.7 meters, with the calmest water near noon at 0.36 meters on a short 3.8-second sea. Swell is similarly small and brief, about 0.36 meters at 2.7 seconds from 155 degrees, which is why the surf score stays muted. A 0.6 meter-per-second ocean current toward 18 degrees is the main small-craft tradeoff. NOAA tides are modest: a 0.18-meter high at 12:22 and a −0.03-meter low at 23:28. Pressure is 1016 hPa and rising, skies are nearly clear, and no rain is indicated. Air sits near 28 Celsius and will feel closer to 34 in 85 percent humidity; that heat, not the sea state, is the grind. Marine sea-surface temperature is 29.8 Celsius, 0.7 below average. Atmospheric visibility is 16.4 kilometers—that is air clarity, not a view of the water column. The best stretch is late morning into midday, when the 09:26–11:26 solunar major overlaps the noon wave minimum and the high tide. The late major, 21:26–23:26, coincides with the day’s strongest gust, near 18.7 knots at 23:00, so evening fishing or wildlife time trades quieter water for more breeze on a falling tide. A waxing gibbous moon, 84 percent lit, rises at 17:56. Against recent CatchWindow scores, boating has climbed from 7.0 on the 22nd and 7.6 on the 23rd, and kayaking has improved from the mid-4s and 5s. Sailing has eased after 9-plus days when winds ran closer to 10–12 knots. Fishing slipped from 7.8 on the 22nd. Diving has held at 7.8. Through the 30th the forecast stays warm and mostly dry, with peak winds in the mid-teens and waves still in that half-meter neighborhood. Best bet: take the boat through the noon quiet, then be in before that late gust shows up.