This weekend: March 7&8
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Breezy, with a south wind between 10 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57. South wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Sunday: A 20 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 71. Breezy, with a south wind between 15 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
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PeelSkid
That's very odd.
This is the NWS/NOAA marine forecast for that stretch of beach:
COASTAL WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL OUT 20 NM-
248 PM EST WED MAR 4 2009
TONIGHT
EAST WINDS 10 TO 15 KNOTS...INCREASING TO AROUND 15
KNOTS AFTER MIDNIGHT. SEAS 2 TO 3 FEET...BUILDING TO 3 TO 5
FEET...ESPECIALLY OFFSHORE. PROTECTED WATERS A LIGHT TO MODERATE
CHOP.
THURSDAY
SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 15 KNOTS...DECREASING TO 10 TO
15 KNOTS. SEAS 3 TO 4 FEET...SUBSIDING TO 2 TO 3 FEET. PROTECTED
WATERS A LIGHT TO MODERATE CHOP.
THURSDAY NIGHT
SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 10 KNOTS. SEAS 2 TO 3 FEET.
PROTECTED WATERS SMOOTH TO A LIGHT CHOP.
FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT
SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 KNOTS.
SEAS 2 TO 4 FEET. PROTECTED WATERS A LIGHT TO MODERATE CHOP.
SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY
SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 15 KNOTS. SEAS 2
TO 4 FEET NEAR SHORE...3 TO 5 FEET OFFSHORE. PROTECTED WATERS A
MODERATE CHOP.
Chuck Hardin
Whitecap Windsurfing, Inc.
c:706-833-WIND (9463)
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/medr/9kh.gif
It might be that the pressure gradient is conspiring with the seabreeze to get to 15kt. Unfortunately for Tinho in Cocoa the center of the high will be too close to them. Jr & I might bail on the Midwinters– 5-10 is kind of a snoozer even on the Hobie.