Outer Banks Live Conditions

Wind, waves, water temp, and tide for the Banks — pulled straight off the NOAA buoys strung from Diamond Shoals to Hatteras East, refreshed every few minutes.

Buoy Readings Off the Banks

As of 2026-11-05T15:27:53Z — NDBC/NWS

Diamond Shoals

Cape Hatteras, NC

Station #41025

Wind: 15.6 kt SSE
Waves: 5.6 ft
Water Temp: 76°F
Air Temp: 76°F
Pressure: 1017.4 hPa

Avon

Avon, NC

Station #41024

Wind: 5.8 kt N
Waves: —
Water Temp: 71°F
Air Temp: 70°F
Pressure: 1017.1 hPa

Hatteras East

150nm E of Cape Hatteras, NC

Station #41001

Wind: —
Waves: —
Water Temp: —
Air Temp: —
Pressure: —

Virginia Beach

64nm E of Virginia Beach, VA

Station #44014

Wind: —
Waves: —
Water Temp: 66°F
Air Temp: —
Pressure: —

Frying Pan Shoals

Southport, NC

Station #41013

Wind: 9.7 kt SSE
Waves: 5.2 ft
Water Temp: 75°F
Air Temp: 77°F
Pressure: 1016.6 hPa

Radar — KMHX (Morehead City)

Spinning up the radar loop…

Loop courtesy of RainViewer — NWS site KMHX covers Hatteras north to the Virginia line ·open the raw NWS page

Oregon Inlet Tides

Pulling NOAA tide predictions…

Numbers from NOAA CO-OPS — station 8652587 at Oregon Inlet, referenced to MLLW ·see every inlet chart →·interactive nautical charts →

The Week Ahead

Pier Cams, Live

Watch Every OBX Cam

Avalon, Jennette's, Nags Head, Avon, Rodanthe — streaming from the rail

Open the cam page →

What's Biting — November

September through November on the Outer Banks — the legendary fall run, when bull red drum invade the surf and the OBX fishery reaches its peak.

Red Drum

Season: Year-round, peak Sept-Nov

King Mackerel

Season: April-November

Speckled Trout

Season: Spring-Fall

Striped Bass

Season: November-March

Flounder

Season: May-October

SST Snapshot — Cape Hatteras Region

Grabbing the latest satellite pass…

Imagery by the Rutgers COOLroom from NOAA GOES — watch the thermocline swing around Diamond Shoals; a new image posts about every hour

Currents — HF Radar Vectors

Pull Up the Current Map

NOAA HF Radar vectors for the water around Hatteras Inlet, Kill Devil Hills, and Ocracoke — click to load, the feed is heavy.

Show Currents

Vectors straight from the NOAA HF Radar network — the CODAR sites at Hatteras Inlet, Kill Devil Hills, and Ocracoke carry the Banks

NOAA Coastal Waters Forecast

Straight from the NWS desk at Newport/Morehead City — product FZUS52 KMHX, NWS Marine · re-checked about every six hours

Tagged Sharks & Turtles — OCEARCH

Open the OCEARCH Map

Pings from every shark, turtle, and more the OCEARCH fleet has tagged — filter the North Atlantic and watch which animals are cruising past Cape Point.

Track Them

Tag positions courtesy of OCEARCH — the Banks sit on the white shark highway between Cape Cod and Florida

Buoys: NOAA NDBC · Forecast model: Open-Meteo · Satellite SST: Rutgers COOLroom · Tides: NOAA CO-OPS

RainViewer handles the radar tiles, NWS Marine writes the zone forecasts, and OCEARCH supplies the tag pings · auto-refresh runs every five minutes

Treat all of it as planning input, not gospel — before you cross a bar or run the beach, read the official marine forecast and whatever the local tackle shop is saying.

Conditions Only Tell Half the Story

See what anglers are actually catching right now — fresh reports from the beach, the piers, and the boats.

See What's Biting Now