Current conditions of the Washington coast. Quote attached below.
Not to brag -- like saying "our weather's more worser than yer weather!"
But I was just thinking of a couple of friends that canceled separate trips up the WA coast over the last few days. They intend to try again later in July, to get in some cruising in Puget Sound and into BC waters.
When it gets rough in the summer, with the wave period and height substantially the same, and you combine that heavy wind-on-the-nose (and, wait there's more...) with a knot of south-flowing surface current, it becomes too rough for recreational boating adventures.
Cheers,
Loren in sunny Portland, 90 miles upstream...
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Coastal waters from Cape Shoalwater, WA to Cascade Head, OR out 20NM
COASTAL WATERS FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OREGON
256 AM PDT MON JUN 29 2009
COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WASHINGTON TO FLORENCE OREGON
AND WESTWARD 60 NM
PZZ250-255-270-275-291645-
COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WA TO CASCADE HEAD OR OUT
10 NM-COASTAL WATERS FROM CASCADE HEAD TO FLORENCE OR OUT 10 NM-
WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WA TO CASCADE HEAD OR FROM 10 TO
60 NM-WATERS FROM CASCADE HEAD TO FLORENCE OR FROM 10 TO 60 NM-
256 AM PDT MON JUN 29 2009
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR WINDS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE
TUESDAY NIGHT
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR HAZARDOUS SEAS IN EFFECT THROUGH
TUESDAY EVENING
TODAY
N WIND 20 TO 25 KT...WITH GUSTS TO 30 KT IN THE
AFTERNOON. COMBINED SEAS 10 FT N TO 13 FT S...WITH DOMINANT
PERIOD 10 SECONDS.
TONIGHT
N WIND 25 TO 30 KT...EASING TO 20 TO 25 KT AROUND
MIDNIGHT. COMBINED SEAS 10 FT N TO 13 FT S...WITH DOMINANT PERIOD
9 SECONDS.
Not to brag -- like saying "our weather's more worser than yer weather!"
But I was just thinking of a couple of friends that canceled separate trips up the WA coast over the last few days. They intend to try again later in July, to get in some cruising in Puget Sound and into BC waters.
When it gets rough in the summer, with the wave period and height substantially the same, and you combine that heavy wind-on-the-nose (and, wait there's more...) with a knot of south-flowing surface current, it becomes too rough for recreational boating adventures.
Cheers,
Loren in sunny Portland, 90 miles upstream...
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Coastal waters from Cape Shoalwater, WA to Cascade Head, OR out 20NM
COASTAL WATERS FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OREGON
256 AM PDT MON JUN 29 2009
COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WASHINGTON TO FLORENCE OREGON
AND WESTWARD 60 NM
PZZ250-255-270-275-291645-
COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WA TO CASCADE HEAD OR OUT
10 NM-COASTAL WATERS FROM CASCADE HEAD TO FLORENCE OR OUT 10 NM-
WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WA TO CASCADE HEAD OR FROM 10 TO
60 NM-WATERS FROM CASCADE HEAD TO FLORENCE OR FROM 10 TO 60 NM-
256 AM PDT MON JUN 29 2009
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR WINDS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE
TUESDAY NIGHT
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR HAZARDOUS SEAS IN EFFECT THROUGH
TUESDAY EVENING
TODAY
N WIND 20 TO 25 KT...WITH GUSTS TO 30 KT IN THE
AFTERNOON. COMBINED SEAS 10 FT N TO 13 FT S...WITH DOMINANT
PERIOD 10 SECONDS.
TONIGHT
N WIND 25 TO 30 KT...EASING TO 20 TO 25 KT AROUND
MIDNIGHT. COMBINED SEAS 10 FT N TO 13 FT S...WITH DOMINANT PERIOD
9 SECONDS.
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