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Lou C

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For those like me near LI Sound we used to have a weather station based at the Univ of Conn that listed wind speeds and wave heights across LI Sound they had like 3-4 weather buoys, IIRC. Haven't seen it on-line in a long time but it was actually very helpful because it was real-time reporting.

Looks like it's back up again, glad I checked:
 

Chris1956

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Lou, NOAA has buoys all along the coasts of the oceans of the world. These measure and report wave heights, period, water temp, wind speed and other stuff. Here is link for NE coast of the US.

 

airshot

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At my end of Lake Erie, the water did not drop 7 feet......after it dropped 4 feet, there was no more water left to drop !! Water here has been low for the past month or more. Hoping we are not entering the low water cycle that the lake goes thru every seven or so years. Been thru these high and low water cycles many times in my 75 years here on western lake erie, and they can really mess things up thru the fishing season.
 

dingbat

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Lou, NOAA has buoys all along the coasts of the oceans of the world. These measure and report wave heights, period, water temp, wind speed and other stuff. Here is link for NE coast of the US.

Found this site the other day looking for wave data for Va. Beach after that last frontal boundary went by.

A treasure trove of documents related to wave data collected during extreme events, ie hurricanes and N’easters

 
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