Weather & Sea Conditions

The NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) maintains a network of data buoys and coastal stations along the entire US coast and various locations internationally. At the NDBC website, data from these various buoys is available for download by the general public. One of these buoys is located inside of Gray's Reef NMS. Data available from this buoy includes sea surface conditions such as wind speed and direction, wave height, dominant wave period, average wave period, air temperature, water temperature and atmospheric pressure.

NDBC Station 41008 Data Buoy located 40 NM Southeast of Savannah, GA within Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary. Photo: Greg McFall

To check weather and sea conditions in and near the sanctuary visit the Gray's Reef Data Buoy and the marine forecast for offshore Georgia waters.

For a complete description of all NWS marine forecast and warning products and services, please visit the National Weather Marine Forecasts webpage and for complete listing of all ocean buoy and coastal station real-time or historical data, visit the National Data Buoy Center webpage. For coastal water temperatures, visit the National Oceanographic Data Center Coastal Water Temperature Guide.