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SPI Brazos Santiago, TX Daily Water Report — August 24, 2026

Today at SPI Brazos Santiago belongs to divers. The 9.1 diving score matches yesterday and sits a tenth under Sunday, driven by light wind, a 0.3-to-0.4-meter sea, and a 29.3 C marine surface. Boating is the strongest surface call at 7.6. Sailing and kayaking sit in the high sixes, fishing at a workmanlike 6.3, wildlife at 6, and surfing remains the leftover at 4.6 on a short, small swell that never had the period to matter. The morning is the window worth protecting. Waves are at their calmest near 09:00 at 0.34 meters, overlapping the 09:26–11:26 solunar major, while the day’s wind range still opens as light as 3.6 knots before a representative 7-knot southerly with 9-knot gusts. High water already arrived at 05:27 at 0.47 meters, well before the 07:06 sunrise, so the long drain toward a −0.02-meter low at 19:26 is the tide story. That evening low is the wildlife score’s best tide ingredient, and a second solunar major runs 21:26–23:26 under an 84 percent waxing gibbous that rises at 17:52—but both sit on the wrong side of the afternoon breeze. The strongest gust is 17.3 knots at 17:00 inside a 3.6-to-15.3-knot day, and a 0.4 m/s current setting north is the other tradeoff for boats and kayaks once the wind fills. Pressure is 1016 hPa and rising, rain is not indicated, air runs a humid 26.6–31.9 C under 87 percent cloud, and atmospheric visibility is 19 kilometers. That last number is not a read on the water column. Fishing’s 6.3 is a step down from 7.1 yesterday and 7.2 on Sunday even with rising pressure and a usable morning solunar. Sailing cooled more sharply from those 9-plus scores, consistent with cloud and a less settled breeze. Kayaking improved on both prior days as seas stayed small and precipitation stayed off the board. Surfing has little to work with: 0.34-meter waves at 4.6 seconds and a 0.3-meter swell at 3 seconds from 130 degrees. The outlook stays warm and nearly dry through the 30th, with peak winds 13 to 16 knots and seas holding 0.2 to 0.5 meters, smallest around Wednesday. Best bet: be in the water before noon, while the sea is still at its quietest and the afternoon southerly has not yet shown its teeth.