MIAMI to BIMINI forecast!

[rhoudini]

Hello! can you guys help me to find a good forecast which tells me how is gonna be the sea in the middle between Miami and Bimini?
and how to find size of waves wind rain and best day to go!

thanks very much

 

[Skeetobite]

http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/wfo/sectors/mflMarineDay.php

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/zone/wrdoffmz.htm#gulf

http://forecast.weather.gov/shmrn.php?mz=amz080&syn=amz088

http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/graphical/sectors/floridaMarineDay.php#tabs

 

[ray306]

Here is a site that graphically shows wave heights

http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display.cgi?a=bahaman_wave

Just as a note the run from Miami to Bimini is relatively short (2 hours or so) but I have found that NOAA and the rest of these forecasts are wrong about 50% of the time. I have had forcasts of 2-4 in the gulf stream but when I hit the stream if was clearly 5-7 (not fun). Extreme caution is necessary when there is any northerly component to the wind direction as that increases wave height in the gulf stream. I would look for a forecast in the 2 foot or less range that way you probably will be OK and even if the forecasts are wrong probably the worst you'll get is 3-5 (not fun but doable).

Ray

 

[earthmover17]

RAY,
50% you are being way to kind to NOAA.

Jack

 

[BahamasBlair]

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=mfl&map.x=318&map.y=160

This is what we use here in Freeport.

 

[techmitch]

Never been or do i have any intentions of being a blow boater but i have found this site to be VERY helpful and VERY accurate. One of the things i particularly like is that you can click on individual buoys and get a real time reading. http://www.sailflow.com/windandwhere.iws?regionID=108&regionProductID=29&timeoffset=0

Hope this helps.

 

[WTP07]

That sailflow site is awesome!

I love the wind graphs....planning a cross lake trip tomorrow....if the wind cooperates, this should help immensely with the planning.

Thanks for sharing!

Randy.