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Marine Weather and Tides West DeLand, FL Version 3.4

NOTICE 12/16/2019 NOAA is having trouble with requests that include wind gusts. I am posting graphs without wind gusts until it gets fixed. 10/9/2019 Updated the Marine Zones. 9/4/2019 Fixed the weather maps due to NOAA moving them. 7/25/2019 New feature in the Airports section gives a link to 5 minute updates for data reports.

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Sunrise 7:10AM

Sunset 7:46PM

Friday April 3, 2020 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)

Moonrise 2:01PM

Moonset 3:10AM

Illumination 83%

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 West DeLand, FL

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Area Discussion for - Melbourne, FL

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FXUS62 KMLB 031947 AFDMLB

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Melbourne FL 347 PM EDT Fri Apr 3 2020

DISCUSSION. Tonight-Sat . A deep low pressure system was located off the coast of northeast U.S. this afternoon. Locally, the FL peninsula sits under a very weak pressure pattern, which is keeping light winds and mostly clear skies. These light and variable winds will continue tonight after the sea breezes meet across the peninsula and land starts to cool down again. Temperatures will drop to the mid 50s with the exception of Orlando metro and coastal areas where lows will stay at around lower 60s.

On Sat, another day of mostly clear skies and light winds in the morning. In the afternoon, both coasts will see the development of sea breezes, which will increase winds to around 10 mph along the coast and dying out as it gets inland. Highs will be regulated thanks to the sea breeze, with highs tapping to the lower 80s while the interior will increase to the mid 80s and no rain chances. Due to long period swells increasing through the day, there will be a high risk for rip currents for the east central FL beaches.

Sun . Models show a mid-level shortwave shifting eastward across Florida into Sunday. At the same time a weak inverted surface trough developing across the area will increase the gradient between this feature and high pressure extending along the Mid-Atlantic coast, enhancing onshore flow and increasing low level moisture across the region. The more unsettled pattern aloft combined with this moisture return, has led to a rise in rain chances for Sunday. Current PoPs are more in line with the ECMWF MOS, around 30-40 percent, and still lower than GFS MOS that is currently up to 50-60 percent. However, potential for shower development, especially into Sunday afternoon, certainly looks better than previous model runs. Overall, instability and lapse rates still look rather unimpressive for any storm formation, so will keep mention out of the forecast for now.

Mostly cloudy skies from overspreading mid-level cloud cover and greater rain chances will lead to a brief interruption in the warming trend. Highs will be lower than Saturday, ranging from the upper 70s to low 80s into Sunday afternoon.

Mon-Thu . (Modified Previous Discussion) Mid level high pressure ridge will rebuild over the Gulf of Mexico as a cut-off low drops south across CA then turns east over the intermountain West mid week. But NW flow aloft over FL will allow continued ripples of vorticity and weak shortwave troughs to cross the area. This more unsettled pattern looks to continue the potential for isolated to scattered showers each afternoon, with both the GFS and ECMWF keeping rain chances in the forecast through mid-week. Have added 20- 30 percent PoPs for Monday, and then kept rain chances no higher than 20 percent Tue-Thu. However, some additional adjustments as models come into better agreement will likely be necessary. In the low levels, southeast to south flow early in the week will turn offshore (westerly) midweek which typically portends increased temps esp along the east coast. Max temps Mon in the low to mid 80s warming to the lower 90s Wed-Thu.

AVIATION. VFR conditions prevailing with light winds.

MARINE. Tonight-Sat . Light winds will prevail tonight and Saturday as weak pressure remains over the local waters. With daytime heating on Sat, the sea breeze will develop and winds over the nearshore waters will pick up to 10 kt from the southeast. Seas will continue to subside tonight but its period will increase on Sat from the northeast to 14- 15 seconds, creating hazardous conditions for boaters transiting in and out of piers and inlets.

Sun-Tue . Long period swells from a distant low pressure system will increase across the waters into Sun-Mon with seas reaching up to 7 to 8 ft. This will produce hazardous conditions near inlets especially during the outgoing tide. Seas should subside below 7 ft into Tue afternoon. Winds will increase out of the E/SE up to 10-15 knots Sun-Mon, and then turn south Tue as high pressure moves east away from FL.

FIRE WEATHER. Dry conditions on Saturday will lead to another fire sensitive day, especially west of I-95 where minimum RH values between 30-40 percent are expected. Light winds on Saturday will become southeast as the sea breeze develops in the late morning and afternoon but it should remain below 13 mph near the coast.

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS. DAB 58 81 64 78 / 0 0 10 30 MCO 59 86 65 81 / 0 10 10 40 MLB 63 80 65 78 / 0 10 10 40 VRB 61 82 63 80 / 0 10 10 40 LEE 60 86 64 80 / 0 0 10 30 SFB 58 86 63 80 / 0 0 10 40 ORL 61 87 66 80 / 0 10 10 40 FPR 61 82 63 80 / 0 10 10 40

MLB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES. FL . None. AM . None.

Negron/Weitlich

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Weather Reporting Stations

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Stations	Dist	Age	Wind	Air Temp	Water Temp	Waves	Pressure	DewPt
GTXF1 - Guana Tolomato Matanzas Reserve, FL	47 mi	115 min	E 5.1	70°F			1016 hPa	55°F
TRDF1 - 8721604 - Trident Pier, FL	56 mi	52 min	NE 5.1 G 8	71°F	77°F		1015.3 hPa
SAUF1 - St. Augustine, FL	60 mi	40 min	SE 6 G 7	67°F	70°F		1014.8 hPa (-0.0)

Wind History for Trident Pier, FL

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Airport Reports

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Airport	Dist	Age	Wind kt	Visibility	Sky/Weather	Temp	DewPt	Humidity	Pressure
Orlando / Sanford Airport, FL	16 mi	47 min	ESE 11	10.00 mi	Fair	74°F	55°F	52%	1014.1 hPa
Daytona Beach International Airport, FL	21 mi	47 min	E 4	10.00 mi	Mostly Cloudy	68°F	55°F	63%	1014.5 hPa
New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport, FL	22 mi	53 min	ENE 7	10.00 mi	Fair	68°F	53°F	60%	1015.2 hPa

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Tide / Current Tables for Daytona Beach Shores (Sunglow Pier), Florida (3)

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Tide / Current Tables for Daytona Beach Shores (Sunglow Pier), Florida (4)

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Wind Forecast for Melbourne, FL (19,4,5,8)

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Ground Weather Radar Station Melbourne, FL

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