Blue Heron Bridge Marine Weather and 7-Day Dive Forecast

Wind Direction & Speed

Daytime wind FROM the indicated direction. Marine-point values are in kt; land proxies outside the point-text horizon are separately labeled in mph. Full gust/night/direction-change wording appears in the day details. These are WPB regional offshore winds, not wind/current measurements at the bridge.

Blue Heron Bridge · 60-Day Tide Planning Calendar

Astronomical predictions, not a 60-day weather forecast. NOAA Port of Palm Beach station 8722588 is a representative harbor station; high water is not automatically slack current at the bridge.

● Daylight high tide (sunrise to before sunset) · ● Evening high tide (sunset–10 p.m.) · Other high tides and all low tides are uncolored. Local EDT/EST; heights in feet above MLLW.

Diving at Phil Foster Park is generally sunrise–sunset outside the guarded swimming area. Dive instruction and group night dives require county permits/authorization. Current permit terms require permit holders and affiliates out of the water and leaving the park by 10 p.m.; a blue high tide does not establish access, slack or a safe start time. Confirm arrangements with your operator. Official park rules · County permit terms.

Solar times are calculated from NOAA’s published approximate equations at the official park map reference; rounded to the minute. The colored window is a planning aid, not astronomical twilight or a permit/safety guarantee.

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Phil Foster Park / Blue Heron Bridge

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Planning area: Phil Foster Park reference [26.783545, -80.04173] from the official county park map. Offshore point [26.77, -80.01] and AMZ650 weather/seas/wind are the SAME WPB regional dataset, checked Sun, Nov 1, 2026, 3:01 PM EST. Offshore data do not measure bridge currents, visibility or slack. NOAA Port of Palm Beach station 8722588 is a representative tide station, not an offshore measurement. Heights are ft above MLLW; no manual tide-time correction is applied.

Seas color scale: The improvement sequence is red to yellow, yellow to blue, then blue to green. This Stuart Scuba planning color combines sea height and period, using the upper daily height and shortest displayed period. At the same height, longer periods can improve the color by at most one neighboring step. For example, 4 ft at 5 s is red/yellow, 3 ft at 5 s is yellow/blue, and 2 ft at 5 s is mostly green with some blue; 2 ft at 2 s stays blue. The base anchors are green at 1 ft or less, blue at 2 ft, yellow at 3 ft and red at 4 ft, with interpolation between them. Period credit is zero at 2 s or less and grows to one color step at 6 s or longer; seas of 5 ft or higher remain red regardless of period. A bar blends only the two neighboring colors for its height/period index, rather than running through every color from top to bottom. Bars rise from zero to the upper height; a dashed mark shows the lower height. Hatching identifies an estimated height and/or period. Wave caps are illustrative. This is not an official NWS rating; wind, current, thunderstorms, advisories and the captain's current assessment still matter. Colors do not authorize a dive or charter.

Wind compasses: calm 0–3 kt; light above 3 and below 12 kt; breezy 12–19 kt; strong 20+ kt. mph is converted internally only for icon selection. Easterly amber and westerly teal are separate nearshore-direction cues, never dive clearance. Variable winds have no fixed bearing. Preserve full point/land qualifications in day details.

Sources and estimate basis: NOAA tides retrieved Nov 1, 3:00 PM EST. Forecast issue times: land: Nov 1, 2:56 PM EST, zone: Nov 1, 2:56 AM EST, point: Nov 1, 2:56 PM EST. A new check is not a new model run. No forecast/observation average is used; no comparable independent forecast pair was established.

tides.json · retrieved Nov 1, 3:00 PM EST

Solar method: NOAA approximate solar equations, apparent horizon zenith 90.833°, at the named location reference; approximately 1–2 minute accuracy, local America/New_York conversion. Tide predictions were sorted together and validated as strictly increasing and alternating H/L. The curve is a visual guide; DST uses each local day’s actual duration. No local tide heights/times were inferred.