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NDBC station · fixed platform

Station 45012: Lake Ontario

43.622°N 77.408°W · Hamlin Beach to Sodus Bay NY beyond 5NM off shoreline to US-Canadian border

GOon wind and seas, for a typical 25 to 35 ft center console.
Wind
ESE 12 kt, gusting 14
Seas
1.6 ft at 4 s
Water
74°F
Air
72°F
Pressure
1021.3 mb, falling

Reported 22 min ago · National Data Buoy Center, station 45012

A buoy reading is not a go/no-go

45012 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 45012

This is a fixed station: a platform or a shore mast. It reports wind, pressure and temperature reliably and usually carries no wave sensor, so seas here come from the model rather than from an instrument.

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 Hamlin Beach to Sodus Bay NY beyond 5NM off shoreline to US-Canadian border (LOZ063), 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.