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For those like me near LI Sound we used to have a weather station based at the Univ of Conn that listed wind speeds and wave heights across LI Sound they had like 3-4 weather buoys, IIRC. Haven't seen it on-line in a long time but it was actually very helpful because it was real-time reporting.

Looks like it's back up again, glad I checked:
 
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Lou, NOAA has buoys all along the coasts of the oceans of the world. These measure and report wave heights, period, water temp, wind speed and other stuff. Here is link for NE coast of the US.

National Data Buoy Center

The National Data Buoy Center's home page. The premier source of meteorological and oceanographic measurements for the marine environment.
www.ndbc.noaa.gov www.ndbc.noaa.gov
 
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At my end of Lake Erie, the water did not drop 7 feet......after it dropped 4 feet, there was no more water left to drop !! Water here has been low for the past month or more. Hoping we are not entering the low water cycle that the lake goes thru every seven or so years. Been thru these high and low water cycles many times in my 75 years here on western lake erie, and they can really mess things up thru the fishing season.
 
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Chris1956 said:
Lou, NOAA has buoys all along the coasts of the oceans of the world. These measure and report wave heights, period, water temp, wind speed and other stuff. Here is link for NE coast of the US.

National Data Buoy Center

The National Data Buoy Center's home page. The premier source of meteorological and oceanographic measurements for the marine environment.
www.ndbc.noaa.gov www.ndbc.noaa.gov
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Found this site the other day looking for wave data for Va. Beach after that last frontal boundary went by.

A treasure trove of documents related to wave data collected during extreme events, ie hurricanes and N’easters

 
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Waves are choppy, short-period disturbances from local wind, while swell consists of longer, smoother, more organized waves generated by distant storms, carrying energy across oceans and arriving with greater regularity and power, often in sets, long after the original wind dies down. Think of waves as the chaotic "chop" from nearby wind, and swell as the orderly, powerful "rollers" that have traveled far
 
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which is my dealings on the chesapeake...wind/waves. Although I don't know the wave heights yet, a wind over 10 mph in the bay proper beats my pontoon up. 🫤
I wonder what the height is though.
 
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Another issue can be how close together the waves are. Here on Lake Erie the waves are closer together, on average about 7' apart, so even n small waves can feel rough on a small boat. My brother was on the ocean in Florida, where waves were closer to 40 feet apart so small waves were not noticible. We both had 22' long boats, in a three foot wave, here on lake Erie it was rough, but on the ocean you could barely feel the boat going up and down. Gotta learn the area you boat in, I hat is rough in one place may not be rough in another.
 
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