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Galveston Bay Entrance, North Jetty, TX Daily Water Report — August 23, 2026

Sailing is the day’s clean winner at Galveston Bay Entrance, North Jetty. The 9.1 score sits a hair under yesterday’s 9.2 and it is earned the honest way: a south breeze with enough consistency to work, a cloudless sky, and a small sea that never builds into a problem. Boating holds 7.6 and fishing improves to 7.8 from yesterday’s 6.4. Surfing at 4.7 and kayaking at 5.3 are the weaker cards; they are scored, not forbidden, but they are not why you should rearrange the morning. The useful stretch runs mid-morning into early afternoon. Representative wind is about 10 knots from the south, gusting near 12, inside a 2.2-to-10.7-knot range, so there is drive for a sail without a slog. Forecast waves sit 0.2 to 0.5 meters and are calmest near 13:00 at 0.22 meters, with a short 2.8-second period and only a 0.1-meter swell from 157 degrees. That is why sailing and boating look friendly and why the surf number stays muted. The air is the real tax: a representative 32.1 C that feels like 36.1 C, humidity 66 percent, dew point 25 C, and a day that runs 27.0 to 33.4 C under a UV of 3.75. Pressure is stable near 1015 hPa, no rain is indicated, and atmospheric visibility is 24.9 km. That last figure is air, not the water column. Fishing’s lift tracks solunar timing, the long ebb, steady pressure, and manageable wind. Major periods fall 08:25–10:25 and 20:25–22:25, with minors at 02:55–03:55 and 14:55–15:55. Tide drops from a 0.55-meter high at 04:25 to a −0.03-meter low at 19:20, a drawdown that also helps wildlife to 7.6, up from yesterday’s 6.0. The evening major overlaps dusk and a late gust of 15.6 knots at 22:00, so the cleaner fishing window is the morning major. Diving holds 6.8, same as yesterday, with marine SST 31.8 C and no anomaly versus average. The 0.7 m/s current setting east is the tradeoff worth respecting, especially for kayaks already sitting at 5.3. Ahead, the forecast stays hot and mostly dry, with peak winds building toward 15 to 16 knots by the 26th and 27th before easing, a 30 percent rain chance on the 28th, and waves remaining in that same small band. Best bet: take the morning sail or the 08:25 fishing window, then be off before the heat and the late gust make the same water feel less generous.