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GMZ350 Coastal Waters From Freeport To Matagorda Ship Channel Tx Out 20 Nm-coastal Waters From High Island To Freeport Tx Out 20 Nm- 900 Pm Cst Sun Dec 3 2023
Rest of tonight..West winds around 10 knots. Seas around 2 feet.
Monday..Northwest winds 10 to 15 knots, becoming northeast in the late morning and afternoon. Seas around 2 feet.
Monday night..Northeast winds around 10 knots. Seas around 2 feet.
Tuesday..Northeast winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 1 foot or less.
Tuesday night..Northeast winds around 10 knots, increasing to 10 to 15 knots late. Seas 1 foot or less, then around 2 feet after midnight.
Wednesday..Northeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas around 2 feet.
Wednesday night..East winds around 10 knots. Seas around 2 feet.
Thursday..Southeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas around 2 feet.
Thursday night..South winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Friday..South winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Friday night..South winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 4 feet.

GMZ300 Synopsis For High Island To The Matagorda Ship Channel Out 60 Nautical Miles Including Galveston And Matagorda Bays 900 Pm Cst Sun Dec 3 2023
Synopsis for high island to the matagorda ship channel out 60 nm including galveston and matagorda bays
light northeasterly winds and low seas will persist through at least midweek, becoming southerly by the end of the week.

FXUS64 KHGX 040522 AFDHGX

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1122 PM CST Sun Dec 3 2023

New AVIATION

SHORT TERM
(This evening through Monday Night)
Issued at 228 PM CST Sun Dec 3 2023

Underneath a veil of high cirrus, temperatures have held to around 70 degrees across the area, give or take a few degrees.
Southwesterly winds have also emerged this afternoon, which may also be helping to boost temperatures slightly after the passage of a weak, reinforcing front overnight.

Despite this, the train of weak cold fronts continues, with another reinforcement coming late tonight/early tomorrow morning, which will veer winds more towards northerly by morning, and northeasterly tomorrow and tomorrow night. The alley of high clouds does look to slide more towards the coast and Gulf tomorrow versus today's lane over the entirety of the forecast area.
However, even where there's sun, the northerly winds and modest cold advection should make tomorrow a touch cooler than today, with highs mostly in the upper 60s, rather than bracketed around 70. Up around Madisonville and Crockett in the far northern reaches of the area, it may be tough to break out of mid-60s.

With the drier air already in place from the last reinforcing front and more on the way from the next one, we can obviously anticipate the weather to remain fair through this weak frontal passage, and that will only continue through tomorrow and tomorrow night as high pressure drops in from the northwest.

LONG TERM
(Tuesday through next Saturday)
Issued at 228 PM CST Sun Dec 3 2023

Surface high pressure will begin an eastward progression, allowing onshore winds to return to the area. This will result in a trend of warming temperatures through the week. Daytime highs will start out in the 60s to around 70s through Tuesday, warming into the mid to upper 70s by Saturday. Nighttime temperatures will be mainly in the 40s through the week, increasing to the 50s and 60s by Saturday night. The aforementioned onshore flow will pull moisture into the area which will bring an increased chance of rain going into the weekend. The highest chance of rain as of now appears to occur on Saturday. Cooler air behind the front will bring temperatures back down into the 40s Saturday night, and into the 50s and 60s on Sunday. As this next cold front approaches, the pressure gradient will tighten, resulting in increasing winds Saturday night into Sunday morning.

AVIATION
(06Z TAF Issuance)
Issued at 1117 PM CST Sun Dec 3 2023

Per satellite, BKN/OVC high clouds are continuing to cover about two-thirds of the area tonight. Even with this, no changes as we maintain mostly VFR through the TAF forecast cycle. The main is- sue will be winds, with the passage of a weak cold front as well as the possibility of LLWS for terminals from CXO northward dur- ing the next few hours (at/around FROPA). Behind the front winds will shift to the N/NW (5-10kt)...then becoming more NE/E by to- morrow afternoon. 41

MARINE
Issued at 228 PM CST Sun Dec 3 2023

Light winds and low seas will persist through at least midweek. The next significant cold front is current in the forecast to move across the area around a week from now (late Saturday night or early Sunday morning next weekend). At this time, expecting primarily showers in association with the front.

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS
College Station (CLL) 45 67 41 69 / 0 0 0 0 Houston (IAH) 50 68 46 70 / 0 0 0 0 Galveston (GLS) 55 65 56 66 / 0 0 0 0

HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
TX...None.
GM...None.

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Freeport Harbor
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Sun -- 06:58 AM CST     Sunrise
Sun -- 12:07 PM CST     Moonset
Sun -- 01:13 PM CST     -0.18 feet Low Tide
Sun -- 05:23 PM CST     Sunset
Sun -- 10:11 PM CST     1.42 feet High Tide
Sun -- 11:13 PM CST     Moonrise
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Freeport Harbor, Texas, Tide feet

Freeport Harbor
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Sun -- 06:58 AM CST     Sunrise
Sun -- 12:07 PM CST     Moonset
Sun -- 01:11 PM CST     0.09 feet Low Tide
Sun -- 05:23 PM CST     Sunset
Sun -- 10:28 PM CST     1.68 feet High Tide
Sun -- 11:13 PM CST     Moonrise
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Freeport Harbor, Texas (2), Tide feet

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