Water Conditions?

Has anyone got a report on what the water conditions are like today? How muddy? How rough?

I'm no good for an 'onsite' but have been monitoring the wave drop from the 42012 bouy...
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42012

About 4' now, down from 7' this am, and 14' yesterday
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.p...time_label=CDT

The beach cams give a decent idea idea of how rough and dingy the waters still are... :(
http://www2.wkrg.com/live-cams/gulf-shores-alabama/

http://www.livebeachnetwork.com/Gulf..._Pier_Cam.html

Looking ahead the marine forecast is very favorable with only light to moderate winds and seas falling to 1-2 feet over the weekend! :headbang:

The tide is going into a NEAP cycle through Monday so not sure how fast it will clear,
but almost for sure it should start looking 'good' again by middle of next week.

:fishing:

Muddy and rough, but not Hawaii 5-0 rough.Give her a little time,Mother Nature will straiten things out.

millions of little red jellies, they don't hurt much just make you itch where they touch, so don't be skinny dippin!!!!!

Buoy 42012 says 2.6 foot waves, 83 degree water temp, south wind blowing softly.....

I'm thinking fish will be dying again very soon.

Yeah, I hope ;-)

A look at the Sea-N-Suds cam revealed the water has returned to 'green'.

I posted what I saw on "Pier Reports". No Labor Day crowds on the pier.

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I posted what I saw on "Pier Reports". No Labor Day crowds on the pier.
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Yeah, the hurricane screwed up our Labor Day. Business is slow.

Maybe this visible sat pic (from Sat Sept 1) will give a perspective of why the water isn't clearing very quickly.
Suspended sediments are noticably discoloring the waters well out into the Gulf from Chandeluer Island to Cape San Blas all along the coast.
[img width=720 height=417]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/pierpounder/Misc/weather/MobileBayVisSat/120901-IsaacSediments.jpg[/img]

Thanks, Dave---that's an informative shot and takes some of the guesswork out of what's happening.

I didn't see a link this time....I got it from a similar map he posted earlier. If I missed it, sorry for the duplication:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/i...12245.aqua.1km

They put up daily pics of the coast and there is a zoom feature. Sometimes the clouds get in the way.

Yep, that's it Rich. I just used the 500m res pic instead of the 1km pic.
On the 250m resolution pic you can see roads and drainage and fields :headbang:

This link gives the latest views each day (True Color is the one)
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/s...ERONET_Stennis

Use the < prev to see previous days overviews ...