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Yorktown USCG Training Center, VA Daily Water Report — August 24, 2026

Boating and paddling own Yorktown today, with diving close behind; surfing can wait. Current and forecast conditions keep representative wind near 5 knots from the west-northwest, gusting only to 8, inside a 2.3-to-6.8-knot day except for an 11.5-knot gust around 14:00. Marine waves stay 0.1 to 0.3 meters and are calmest near noon at 0.06 meters, with almost no swell, slack current, and no rain. That is why boating scores 9.2 and kayaking 8.6 on wind, waves, current, and precipitation—cloud cover also feeding the boating number—while diving sits at 8.1 on wind, waves, available clarity, and water temperature. Those scores are not safety declarations, but the water is unusually easy. The tradeoff is energy. Surfing holds at 4.5 because height and period are barely there: about 0.08 meters at just over 4 seconds. Sailing manages only 6.4 in air this light. Fishing is a middling 6.2 from solunar timing, tide, a rising 1016 hPa pressure, light wind, and available clarity—useful, not electric. Wildlife reaches 7.4 on solunar windows, the 0.17-meter lows at 01:30 and 13:11, and the quiet breeze, better than 6.4 yesterday and 6.8 on the 22nd. Boating and kayaking have also stepped up from those two days; fishing eased off yesterday’s 6.8, and sailing cooled from 7.5. The cleanest stretch is the morning high at 07:26 into the 08:01–10:01 major period, then the afternoon low through the 19:42 high and the 20:01–22:01 major. Sunrise is 05:30; a waxing gibbous moon, 84 percent lit, rises at 16:56. Air runs 18.8 to 31.5 C under more than 20 kilometers of atmospheric visibility—that is air, not the view underwater. Marine sea-surface temperature is 30.1 C, about 1.2 degrees above average. Tuesday and Wednesday stay warm and only a little breezier, with waves still small until a modest bump on the 26th. Rain chances climb to 45 percent Wednesday and 60 percent Thursday, then ease. Best bet: take a boat or kayak through the midday slick and linger into the evening high.