FZNT25 KNHC 170930

OFFN04



NAVTEX Marine Forecast

NWS National Hurricane Center Miami, FL

530 AM EDT Mon Aug 17 2026



...Please refer to Coastal Waters Forecasts (CWF) available

through NOAA Weather Radio and other means for detailed

Coastal Waters Forecasts...



Southeast Gulf of America



.SYNOPSIS...High pressure will prevail across the Gulf waters

through the week. A weak pressure gradient will support mostly

gentle to moderate winds across much of the basin. A diurnally

induced surface trough will generate fresh to occasionally

strong winds N of the Yucatan peninsula early each evening.

These winds will spread westward away from the Yucatan at night

as the trough migrates into the SW Gulf. Slight to moderate seas

are expected through the forecast period.  



.TODAY...NE to E winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.TONIGHT...N to NE winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.TUE...N winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.TUE NIGHT...NW winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.WED...NW winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.WED NIGHT...NW winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.THU...NW winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.THU NIGHT...NW winds 5 to 10 kt, shifting to SW after midnight.

Seas 2 ft or less. 

.FRI...S to SW winds less than 5 kt, shifting to NW in the

afternoon. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.FRI NIGHT...NW to N winds 5 to 10 kt, shifting to SE to S after

midnight. Seas 2 ft or less.  



Within 200 nm east of the coast of Florida



.SYNOPSIS...Surface ridging along 27N and the passage of a pair

of tropical waves across the Caribbean Sea will modulate

moderate to fresh NE to E winds south of 23N through the

forecast period. Otherwise, a cold front extending from 31N54W

to 27N63W to 31N71W  will continue to move across the northern

forecast waters today then stall and weaken into a trough by

Tue. Fresh to strong SW to W  winds ahead of the front will

diminish by this evening. However, shower activity associated

with the front and its remnants is forecast through Thu.



.TODAY...E to SE winds 10 to 15 kt S of 27N, and SW to W 5 to

10 kt N of 27N. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.TONIGHT...SE winds 5 to 10 kt S of 27N, and SW to W 10 to 15 kt

N of 27N. Seas 2 ft or less, building to 3 ft after midnight.

Scattered showers and isolated tstms. 

.TUE...W winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 3 ft in the morning, subsiding to

2 ft or less. 

.TUE NIGHT...SW to W winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.WED...SW winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.WED NIGHT...S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.THU...S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.THU NIGHT...SE to S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.FRI...S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. 

.FRI NIGHT...S winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 ft or less.