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Skamokawa, WA Daily Water Report — August 23, 2026

Skamokawa’s water is sitting unusually still on August 23, and the call is decisive: this is a boating and kayaking day, with diving close behind, while surfing and sailing have almost nothing to work with. The marine forecast holds wave height at 0 meters from midnight through the evening, with swell and wind waves likewise flat and ocean current at rest. Current conditions and the Open-Meteo forecast put a representative west-northwest breeze at 3 knots, gusting to 5, inside a day range of 1.0 to 5.9 knots until a late punch of 11.7 knots around 20:00. That light air, dry sky, and glassy surface are exactly what the boating and kayaking scores use—wind, waves, current, and precipitation, with boating also crediting the cloudless cover—and they land at 9.4 and 9.1. Those are suitability numbers, not a safety declaration. The evening gust after sunset at 20:13 is the day’s real tradeoff for anyone still afloat. Diving stays at 8.1, matching yesterday’s CatchWindow history, on the same calm plus a CoastWatch sea-surface temperature of 16.4°C, about 2.6 degrees above average. That is still cool water. The 17-kilometer visibility reading is atmospheric and does not describe what you will see once you go under. Fishing holds at a middling 6.2, unchanged from the 22nd. With no tide data available, the useful handles inside that score are solunar timing, stable pressure near 1018 hectopascals, and the easy breeze. Major solunar windows run 08:24 to 10:24 and 20:24 to 22:24. Wildlife improves to 7.4 from yesterday’s 6.2 on those periods and the light wind. Surfing remains stuck at 4.5 because there is no height or period to ride. Sailing only reaches 5.6: the sky is clear, but the breeze is too thin. Yesterday’s history showed warmer air at 19.1°C and slightly softer pressure. Today’s representative air is near 17°C, ranging 15.0 to 22.4°C, with sunrise at 06:23 and a waxing gibbous moon rising at 17:27. The marine forecast keeps waves at zero through the 29th. Monday the 24th turns hot, 12.5 to 31.5°C, with peak wind still about 7 knots and no rain indicated; midweek cools and stays light before a modest rain chance by the 29th. Best bet: put a boat or kayak on the long clear stretch after sunrise and be in before that 20:00 gust, and leave the surfboard home.