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Marine Weather and Tides Miramar Beach, FL Version 3.4

What's New / NOTES 10/6/2018 Colors of tide XTide graphs changed to emphasize that they were upgraded. See next note. Comments welcome. 10/4/2018 I have fixed XTide and updated the harmonic files. There were some name changes so you might have to click EDIT to find the new station name.

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Sunrise 5:46AM

Sunset 7:40PM

Friday May 24, 2019 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)

Moonrise 12:03AM

Moonset 10:44AM

Illumination 68%

NOTE: Some of the data on this page has not been verified and should be used with that in mind. It may and occasionally will, be wrong. The tide reports are by xtide and are NOT FOR NAVIGATION.

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7 Day Forecast for Marine Location Near Miramar Beach, FL

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Fxus62 ktae 241417 afdtae area forecast discussion national weather service tallahassee fl 1017 am edt Fri may 24 2019 Update No changes to the forecast necessary. Prev discussion [552 am edt] Near term [through today] A strong ridge is centered over the region today. At the surface high pressure is centered over the southeast. A dry air mass will be in place today with pops near zero. Skies will be mostly sunny except for maybe some patchy fog this morning. Today will be hotter than yesterday with highs in the mid to upper 90s away from the immediate coast. Short term [tonight through Monday] The center of the deep layer ridge should be right over the fl panhandle tonight with surface high pressure encompassing much of the southeastern state. This ridge stays firmly in place through the weekend with heights slowly rising. Dry weather will continue. In terms of temps and dew point forecasts, dew points in many spots have mixing out into the 50s the last two days which has not been forecast by the models. It's also tough to figure out which way to nudge the model temp forecast because we're only running about a deg too warm. But the blends always underestimate the temps in these strong high pressure days. Then again, just starting to notice additional moisture coming in for mon-wed so the blended temps that are lower than previously advertised may work out. Saturday, Sunday and Monday will see highs around 97-100 (away from the immediate coast). Originally, Sunday and Monday were the hottest days but I think the clouds may keep the temps a little more suppressed. This puts heat index values around 100-103. This is a tad lower than previous forecasts because I manually lowered the afternoon dew points based on trends. Long term [Monday night through Friday] As mentioned above, looks like some mid level clouds will be more prevalent than previous forecasts which will continue to Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. The upper level ridge starts to flatten out Wednesday night with a front and upper trough approaching on Thursday. These really dry regimes sort of provide a feedback loop to the atmosphere because then most fronts dry out before they get here which is what most of the guidance is showing. We should see an increase in clouds Thu and Fri at least. However, blended guidance is showing some low pops Thu into Fri as the front stalls across the area. Point of the story is that temps don't cool down. Tue will still see highs in the upper 90s, Wed Thu in the mid to upper 90s and then Friday in the lower to mid 90s. Tue, Wed and Thu will have heat index values around 100 again (once again, all lower temps will be at the immediate coast). The last official 100 degree days (measured at each airport) for the following areas are as follows: dothan, al: july 1, 2012 valdosta, ga: august 23, 2014 panama city, fl: august 26, 2014 tallahassee, fl: august 23, 2016 albany, ga: june 25, 2018 record high temperatures and record high minimum temperatures at tallahassee, fl: may 24: 100 in 1941 high min: 71 in 1899 may 25: 100 in 1953 high min: 73 in 1938 may 26: 100 in 2012

high min: 73 in 1951 may 27: 102 in 1953 high min: 71 in 1972 may 28: 100 in 2000 high min: 70 in 1934 record high temperatures at albany, ga: may 24: 99 in 1941 may 25: 99 in 2012 may 26: 101 in 1962 may 27: 100 in 1962 may 28: 101 1962 Aviation [through 06z Saturday] mostly sunny clear skies are expected this TAF cycle. Some patchy fog is possible this morning mainly near vld. Winds will be light today with the exception of ecp getting the usual summertime afternoon seabreeze winds. Marine With surface high pressure right overhead, light winds of less than 10 knots may fluctuate in direction but will overall settle back to southerly each afternoon. Seas will be 1 to 3 feet throughout the weekend. The next chance of rain won't be until the end of the next workweek. Fire weather A very dry air mass is in place with relative humidity values around 30 percent today and slightly lower tomorrow. Fuels are also dry in most locations. Red flag criteria will not be met since winds will be light today and relative humidity values are not quite low enough. A southerly seabreeze around 10 mph is expected near the coast today. Hydrology No rain is forecast through the next week so no flooding or hydrology concerns are expected. Spotter information statement Spotter activation is not requested. However, spotters are always encouraged to safely report significant weather conditions when they occur by calling the office or tweeting us @nwstallahassee. Preliminary point temps pops Tallahassee 97 69 99 73 98 0 0 10 0 10 panama city 89 72 92 75 90 0 0 10 0 0 dothan 95 70 98 72 98 0 0 10 0 10 albany 96 72 99 75 98 0 0 0 0 10 valdosta 96 68 100 72 98 0 0 0 0 10 cross city 94 67 97 70 95 0 0 0 0 0 apalachicola 87 71 90 74 89 0 0 0 0 0 Tae watches warnings advisories Fl... None. Ga... None. Al... None. Gm... None. Update... Nguyen near term... Mcd short term... Ln long term... Ln aviation... Mcd marine... Ln fire weather... Mcd hydrology... Ln

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Weather Reporting Stations

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Stations	Dist	Age	Wind	Air Temp	Water Temp	Waves	Pressure	DewPt
PCBF1	16 mi	33 min	S 8.9 G 9.9	80°F	83°F		1022 hPa
PACF1 - 8729108 - Panama City, FL	28 mi	33 min	SSW 8 G 9.9		82°F
PCLF1 - 8729840 - Pensacola, FL	56 mi	27 min	S 4.1 G 6	84°F	84°F		1021.9 hPa
APCF1 - 8728690 - Apalachicola, FL	74 mi	27 min	SSE 7 G 8.9	80°F	82°F		1022 hPa

Wind History for Panama City, FL

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Airport Reports

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Airport	Dist	Age	Wind kt	Visibility	Sky/Weather	Temp	DewPt	Humidity	Pressure
Destin, Destin-Ft. Walton Beach Airport, FL	18 mi	52 min	SSE 8	10.00 mi	Partly Cloudy	83°F	72°F	70%	1021.6 hPa
Panama City - Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport, FL	20 mi	52 min	N 0	10.00 mi	Partly Cloudy	90°F	63°F	41%	1022.3 hPa
Valparaiso / Eglin Air Force Base, FL	23 mi	49 min	SSE 8	10.00 mi	Fair	87°F	70°F	59%	1021.7 hPa

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Tide / Current Tables for West Bay Creek, West Bay, St. Andrew Bay, Florida

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Tide / Current Tables for Panama City Beach, Florida

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Weather Map and Satellite Images

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Wind Forecast for (13,3,4,5)

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Ground Weather Radar Station Northwest Florida

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Gulf Stream Current

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