NDBC station · buoy

Buoy 41056: Vieques Island, PR

18.261°N 65.464°W · Coastal Waters east of Puerto Rico, around Vieques, and around and just north of Culebra and Saint John

GOon wind alone, for a typical 25 to 35 ft center console. This station is not reporting seas.

Wind: ENE 14 kt, gusting 18
Air: 84°F
Pressure: 1016.9 mb, rising

Reported 32 min ago · National Data Buoy Center, station 41056

A buoy reading is not a go/no-go

41056 measures the water. It does not know your boat. Fifteen knots and three feet is a pleasant afternoon on one hull and a beating on another, and the difference is the two or three numbers you already carry in your head. GoNoGo Weather scores this station and the forecast around it against your own limits and gives you one straight answer, with the hour it changes.

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How to read station 41056

This is a floating buoy, so its seas are measured rather than modeled. Significant wave height is the average of the highest third of the waves, which means roughly one wave in ten is noticeably bigger than the number, and the largest in an hour can be close to twice it.

Period matters as much as height. Four feet at ten seconds is a long, easy swell; four feet at four seconds is a short steep chop that stops a boat. Wind against tide steepens everything, and a buoy cannot see that from where it floats. Age matters too: stations go quiet, and a reading that has not updated in three hours is history rather than weather.

This station sits in the NWS marine zone Coastal Waters east of Puerto Rico, around Vieques, and around and just north of Culebra and Saint John (AMZ726), which is the forecast we read alongside it.

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This is a read of official forecasts and observations, not a guarantee. You know your boat and your crew. The call is yours.