Good morning, this is Bates with your Ocean Surf Shop surf report and forecast for Thursday, October 15 at 8:30 a.m. 

The weather is perfect out here at the beach, but the surf is small and weak on this morning’s incoming tide.

Surf is looking knee high, and it would push a log, but just barely.  Just no swell in the water.

Winds are south-west around 5 to 10 knots, and surf is semi-choppy.

Look for south-west winds and a warm, sunny wonderful day at the beach today with pigeon blue skies.  

We have a high tide at 11:38 a.m., and a low tide at 5:55 p.m.

Edisto Bouy is 1.6 feet at 8 seconds from the east/south-east. So no swell at the buoy, and surf stays minimal through tomorrow.

Our pals over at NOAA predict, “High pressure will extend across the region this week. A strong cold front will push offshore Friday night into Saturday morning. Significant wind and sea conditions expected across the nearshore and outer Georgia and South Carolina waters this weekend into early next week.”

Surf should be picking up Saturday as north/north-east winds begin to blow behind a cold front. If you don’t have your spring suit or a jacket ready, this is the time to pull it out, as it will cool down over the weekend, and the water will follow. High angled north-east wind swell increases Sunday into Monday, when winds begin to finally back down some. Florida will see more swell from this as usual. North-east swell tends to roll right past us, but there will be some fun waves to ride, it’ll just be really drifty. Bring one car, park it on the east side of the island, and park your friends car at the pier.

Sunrise is 7:23 a.m. and sunset will be at 6:49 p.m.

Thanks for checking in with Ocean Surf Shop.

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