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

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 →

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 — July

The July rundown, Banks-wide

Spanish Mackerel

Excellent

Balling bait at the Avalon and Nags Head pier heads. Gotcha plug at first light, trolled spoons once the sun is up.

Cobia

Good

Rays and turtles inside 30 fathoms off Hatteras — spot one, pitch a bucktail to it, hold on.

Mahi-Mahi (Dolphin)

Excellent

Sargassum lines on the shelf edge out of Oregon Inlet. Ballyhoo skipped under the mats.

Bluefish

Excellent

Mullet rigs in the sloughs from Corolla to Avon; blitzes at sunup and again at dusk.

Flounder

Good

Drift the Roanoke Sound channel edges with a mud minnow on the moving tide.

King Mackerel

Good

Live menhaden slow-trolled over the live-bottom marks off Nags Head. Dawn window is the one.

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

A captain who fished this morning can read these numbers for you — ask, and get a video back. Day, week, and annual passes.

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