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Marine Weather and Tides Socastee, SC Version 3.4

NOTICE 8/26/2020 The 7 day forecast is taking about 5 seconds to load but it will eventually load. NOAA is still working on it. 8/18/2020 NOAA continues to have trouble. Wind guest will occasionally be left off graphs. I am working with NOAA to resolve the issue. 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 7:06AM

Sunset 7:08PM

Saturday September 26, 2020 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)

Moonrise 3:38PM

Moonset 12:58AM

Illumination 73%

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 Socastee, SC

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Area Discussion for - Wilmington, NC

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FXUS62 KILM 262349 AFDILM

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Wilmington NC 749 PM EDT Sat Sep 26 2020

SYNOPSIS. Weak high pressure will settle into the area this weekend, bringing warmer and mostly dry weather. Showers and a few storms will be back in the forecast Sunday night to midweek, as as an upper level disturbance moves through followed by a strong cold front that is due on Wednesday.

NEAR TERM /THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/. Forecast has trended a bit drier for this aftn/evening based on latest radar trends and hiRES guidance, so removed any mention of rain from the forecast. Just not much of a trigger and a lot of dry air above 850mb. Such is the case for tonight as well, and with a weak pressure gradient in place and light winds, expect another night with areas of fog across the area. Continued dry into Sun with light SW flow developing in the aftn and temps reaching the low/mid 80s. Included a slight chance of rain then for Sun night as deep- layer moisture increases, however did not go higher due to a lack of forcing despite some weak shortwave energy moving through the area. Any precip should be light.

SHORT TERM /MONDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/. Front-running shortwave will be exiting to our northeast on Monday taking with it the main forcing for ascent. Just enough weak low level isentropic lift remains ahead of an approaching cold front however to keep a dry forecast. The very low end chance/30-ish POPs inherited have been raised just a bit (will show slightly higher SW than NE in deference to WRF and GFS both showing the WAA precip coming in from the SW). Daytime highs will be just a few degrees above climo but the cloud cover in the WAA regime will keep lows elevated some 10 degrees above climatology.

LONG TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/. Very deep trough digging into the lower MS valley on Tuesday. Locally we stay in the fairly benign looking WAA regime with showers and isolated thunderstorms (depending on extent of insolation) becoming more widespread. The ability for the atmosphere to destabilize will become much more relevant Tuesday night into Wednesday as strong dynamics aloft lead to significant mass response in the low levels. Should this largely be Tuesday night then a brief heavy rain squall line with possible embedded bows and spin-ups possible. However should we gravitate towards a slower progression (which is common when the the trough digs so strongly) then more substantial severe weather will be possible on Wednesday. The mid level trough starts to reload Thursday into Friday keeping is in neutral to weakly warm advection locally. The cold front appears to come through on Saturday-probably with little 'weather' due to a lack of prefrontal moisture flux. It's tough to say so far in advance the configuration of the mid level trough driving the cold air and how strong the local CAA winds up. At this time it appears a bit tempered whereas possibilities still include some older runs that show a long fetch discharge of northern Canadian cold air.

AVIATION /00Z SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/. Overcast cloud cover remains over northeast SC, and SC terminals will likely encounter IFR ceilings and visibilities overnight into the early morning hours where heavy rain fell 24-36 hours ago. NC terminals will see predominantly MVFR with some patchy IFR ceilings and visibilities through the morning hours before the dissipation by mid morning for all terminals. Isolated pop up showers possible in the vicinity of area airports Sunday afternoon . confidence too low to mention in TAF at this time.

Extended Outlook . Patchy fog possible each overnight and dissipating by morning. Otherwise, VFR conditions are expected going into early next week.

MARINE. Through Sunday Night: No headlines necessary with this forecast package. A weak pressure gradient continues over the area with a weak frontal boundary stationed well offshore. Just 5-10 kt wind through the period, with a typical onshore direction in the aftn/eve and offshore during the morning hours. Seas of 2-4 ft this aftn/evening slightly drop to 2-3 ft late tonight through Sun night, mainly driven by SE 6-7 second waves.

Monday through Thursday . Light winds and no longer period swell on Monday leaving only a minor wind chop on area waters. Southerly gradient tightens up on Tuesday with the approach of a cold front but not to where headlines appear warranted. That may change Tuesday into Wednesday as the upper system approaches though there is some uncertainty regarding the speed at which this occurs and similarly to the associated cold frontal passage. The latter should be some time either Tuesday night or Wednesday and models may trend towards the latter. FROPA will lead to a veer to a more westerly flow and likely no big surge of cold air/high pressure that can sometimes start always leading to advisories in the transitional seasons. Energy once again entering the upper trough on Thursday appears to be the main reason for a more benign frontal passage.

ILM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES. SC . None. NC . Coastal Flood Advisory until 8 PM EDT this evening for NCZ107. MARINE . None.

SYNOPSIS . ILM NEAR TERM . MAS SHORT TERM . mbB LONG TERM . mbB AVIATION . MCK MARINE . ILM

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Weather Reporting Stations

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Stations	Dist	Age	Wind	Air Temp	Water Temp	Waves	Pressure	DewPt
MROS1 - 8661070 - Springmaid Pier, SC	6 mi	52 min		73°F
NIWS1 - North Inlet-Winyah Bay Reserve, SC	25 mi	67 min	NW 2.9	75°F			1014 hPa	71°F
41024 - Sunset Nearshore (SUN 2)	30 mi	44 min	NW 12 G 16	74°F	78°F		1014.2 hPa

Wind History for Springmaid Pier, SC

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Airport Reports

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Airport	Dist	Age	Wind kt	Visibility	Sky/Weather	Temp	DewPt	Humidity	Pressure
Myrtle Beach International Airport, SC	4 mi	56 min	WNW 8	10.00 mi	Partly Cloudy	74°F	71°F	91%	1014.8 hPa
Conway Horry County Airport, SC	11 mi	57 min	N 0	10.00 mi	Overcast	72°F	68°F	88%	1015.2 hPa
North Myrtle Beach Grand Strand Airport, SC	17 mi	59 min	W 7	10.00 mi	Fair	77°F	70°F	79%	1014.4 hPa

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Tide / Current Tables for Socastee Bridge, ICWW, South Carolina

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Tide / Current Tables for Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

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