Good morning this is Bates with your Ocean Surf Shop surf report and forecast for Wednesday, November 30 at 8:30 a.m.

Waves at the Washout today are knee-to-thigh high in a fresh south-west wind wave.

Winds are south-west at 15. Surf is choppy, weak and there is a slight drift up the beach.

We see south-west winds at 15 to 20 today, but winds could calm some late day if this approaching front moves offshore before dark. Keep an eye on the flags for a possible small wind-swell clean-up, late day.   

We are coming off an early morning low tide, and high tide will be at 1:24 p.m. The next low tide will be at 7:32 p.m.

The Edisto Buoy is reading 3.9 feet at 5 seconds in a short-period south wind swell. This should build some during the afternoon ahead of an approaching cold front.

Look for small, choppy, pre-frontal south-west wind swell for today. Winds could come offshore late if the front passes before the end of the day. By Thursday, winds go strong north/north-east and push wind-swell past our beaches, but we could get some choppy, drifty, high angled north-east wind swell building Thursday with some leftovers on Friday. For the weekend some small easterly swell moves more into our window Saturday into Sunday. Likely Nothing too big, but perhaps something to ride Saturday and into Sunday with more moderate winds in the forecast.

Your NOAA Marine Weather Forecast for our area currently calls for: “A cold front will move offshore today, followed by high pressure. Another cold front could briefly stall over the area this weekend.”

It’s warm. It is 70* with clouds and sun mixed. We do expect thunderstorms early afternoon, which should dissipate around 3 p.m.  

Water temperature is around 61*.

Sunrise is at 7:01 a.m., and sunset will be at 5:14 p.m.

Thanks for checking in with Ocean Surf Shop.