Sheltered water & sandbar · Boca Raton
Lake Boca conditions.
Your day, in context.
Plan around the wind, tide and the trip back. Sheltered water needs a different reading from the open Atlantic.
The published conditions
Forecast and nowcast estimates, not a measurement of every part of this place. This page caches responses for up to five minutes.
Published
Valid Mon, Oct 19, 3:00 AM EDT
- Wind
- 22.0 kt
- Gusts
- 24.9 kt
- Waves
- Unavailable
- Wave period
- Unavailable
- Tide estimate
- 1.8 ft MLLW
Published advisories
- Small Craft Advisory issued October 19 at 1:41AM EDT until October 21 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Miami FLEnds Wed, Oct 21, 8:00 PM EDT
- Sargassum inundation risk: medium (AOML 2026-10-17)
- Red tide: no recent FWC samples within 25 mi (last 8 days)
- Canal releases into the Hillsboro / ICW: G56 600 cfs, S37A 391 cfs. Expect lower clarity and runoff
- UV index 3 forecast for 2026-10-18 (EPA, Boca Raton 33432)
- Portuguese man o' war: 1 iNaturalist sighting within 15 mi in 14 days (latest 2026-10-05, Old Ocean Blvd, Ocean Ridge, FL, US)
- Gulf Stream edge approx 9.2 nm east (first 2 kt current)
Official marine forecast · AMZ650
Tonight: NE winds 25 to 30 kt. Seas 9 to 13 ft, occasionally to 17 ft. Wave Detail: NE 12 ft at 9 seconds and N 5 ft at 9 seconds. Intracoastal waters very rough in exposed areas. A slight chance of showers and tstms early this evening.
Mon: NE winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt. Seas 9 to 12 ft, occasionally to 15 ft. Wave Detail: NE 11 ft at 11 seconds and N 6 ft at 9 seconds. Intracoastal waters rough in exposed areas. A chance of showers late.
Mon Night: NE winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt. Seas 8 to 11 ft, occasionally to 14 ft. Wave Detail: NE 11 ft at 11 seconds. Intracoastal waters rough in exposed areas. A chance of showers in the evening.
Read the NWS forecastSources, timestamps & unavailable information
- Open-Meteo GFS-Wave 0.16 · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 2:49 AM EDT · Last good Mon, Oct 19, 2:51 AM EDT
- Open-Meteo ECMWF WAM · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 2:11 AM EDT · Last good Mon, Oct 19, 2:36 AM EDT
- Open-Meteo marine SST · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 2:11 AM EDT · Last good Mon, Oct 19, 2:36 AM EDT
- Open-Meteo weather · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 2:11 AM EDT · Last good Mon, Oct 19, 2:48 AM EDT
- NWS gridpoint MFL 112,76 · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 2:30 AM EDT · Last good Mon, Oct 19, 2:51 AM EDT
- CO-OPS 8722816 tide predictions · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 1:12 AM EDT · Last good Mon, Oct 19, 2:36 AM EDT
- NDBC PEGF1 · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 2:41 AM EDT · Last good Mon, Oct 19, 2:41 AM EDT
- CO-OPS 8722956 live · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 2:49 AM EDT · Last good Mon, Oct 19, 2:49 AM EDT
- CO-OPS 8722956 South Port Everglades water temp QC · Unavailable · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 2:42 AM EDT
- USNO moon · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 2:51 AM EDT
- waves · Unavailable
- Wave forecast integrity · Available
- NWS marine-zone AMZ650 · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 2:43 AM EDT · Last good Mon, Oct 19, 2:43 AM EDT
- GOES-19 GLM cloud publication · Available · Retrieved Mon, Oct 19, 3:07 AM EDT · Last good Mon, Oct 19, 3:08 AM EDT
Water temp forecast: Open-Meteo Marine SST · Wind + weather: Open-Meteo forecast (best match) · Thunder probability: NWS Miami gridpoint forecast (api.weather.gov) · Tides: NOAA CO-OPS 8722816 predictions (MLLW) · Observed: NDBC PEGF1 · Observed: CO-OPS 8722956 South Port Everglades · Moon: U.S. Naval Observatory · Sun times: computed (suncalc) · Not for navigation.
A sandbar is not an offshore forecast point
Lake Boca’s selected point represents the lake and sandbar area. Open-ocean wave values may be unavailable because they do not describe sheltered water. A tide prediction is relative to its station and datum; it is not the depth over the sandbar.
What remains unknown here?
Water depth at your exact position, available anchoring space, boat traffic and swimming conditions are not measured here.
Know the station behind the number.
The selected point is Lake Boca Sandbar. A station or marine zone covers its own area; it is not a sensor at every beach, inlet or sandbar.
- Boca Raton marine and launch information
- NOAA tide station 8722816 · station and datum
- NWS Miami marine forecasts and advisories
Local guide reviewed October 19, 2026. Forecast publication times are shown separately.
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