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Gulf Shores, ICWW

Near Gulf Shores, AL · Good conditions · next low tide 4:22 PM

midnight6 AMnoon6 PMmidnightHigh 3:26 AM · 1.8 ftLow 4:22 PM · 0.2 ftnow
Today: high 3:26 AM (1.8 ft), low 4:22 PM (0.2 ft). Predicted at the gauge, hour by hour, on the station’s own clock. The band is daylight; the tick is now.
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The week: seven days of the tide on one height scale, daylight shaded, highs as white dots and lows as grey. Plan Saturday from here.

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buoy PPTA1 · 8 miGulf Shores, ICWW gauge
The gauge and the buoy the readings come from, 8 miles apart. The arrow is the wind at the buoy.

On the water

Good conditions

Wind
13 mph
Water
84°F
Air
88°F
Pressure
1015 mb, falling 1.8 mb in 3h

    Buoy PPTA1, 8 miles from the gauge. It reports no wave height, so seas are not in the rating. Whether it is workable out there, not whether anything will bite. Nobody can forecast that.

    Reading this honestly

    The buoy is 8 miles from this gauge, which is stated for a reason: sea state at a buoy offshore can be nothing like conditions in a sheltered channel, and a water temperature reading a river mouth away may be several degrees out.

    The rating is about wind, seas and warnings - whether a small boat can work comfortably and safely. It is not a bite forecast, and the tide times above are not one either. Tide stage matters to a great many species and every angler has a theory about which stage; we are not going to convert those theories into a number and present it as data.

    Other Alabama gauges

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    Sources: NOAA CO-OPS predictions for gauge 8731439 (hourly and high/low, relative to mean lower low water, local time; actual water level varies with wind and pressure, sometimes by a foot or more). NDBC buoy PPTA1 latest observation. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations (gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc). Marine products from the National Weather Service. Coast from the US Census Bureau county file.