Outer Banks, NC

Data status

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Currituck Sound

Inland water level

USGS 02043433
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Wind prediction

Daily
24h change
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7d range
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Latest reading
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Northern OBX surf

Duck FRF buoy

NDBC 44056
-- °F water

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-- ft waves

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Swell
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Wind wave
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Air temp
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24h water change
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7d water range
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Wind --
Pressure --
Dew point --

Carova Atlantic

Tide guidance

NOAA 8639428
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Next tide
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Station
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Datum
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Carova Beach

Fire station weather

WeatherSTEM
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-- wind
Humidity
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Pressure
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Rain chance
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Carova 4x4 forecast

Next few hours

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VA line water temps

Buoy temperature map

NOAA NDBC

A northern Outer Banks view centered on the VA/NC line oceanfront, with nearby, northern, and offshore buoys plotted by current water temperature and 24 hour movement.

Corolla Light Resort

Live surf cam

Vista Webcams

Load the live cam only when you want to watch. It unloads when you leave the page or scroll away.

Corolla Light Resort cam via Vista Webcams. Plays only while this card is on-screen and the tab is active.

Dashboard feed map

What this dashboard pulls

Core water feeds

  • Currituck Sound level: USGS station 02043433, instantaneous gage height on the east bank at Corolla, shown with 1, 7, and 30 day chart windows.
  • Duck FRF surf buoy: NOAA NDBC station 44056 realtime observations for wave height, recent water temperature history, and air temperature; nearby Carova/NWS weather fills wind, pressure, and dew point when the buoy leaves those fields blank.
  • Swell details: NOAA NDBC spectral feed for 44056, used for dominant swell and wind-wave breakdown when the spectral file is fresh.
  • Atlantic tides: NOAA CO-OPS high/low predictions for Sandbridge, VA station 8639428, used because it is the closest tide-prediction station currently modeled for the VA/NC line oceanfront.

Map and weather feeds

  • Buoy map: NOAA NDBC realtime station files for Cape Henry, Virginia Beach offshore, OOI Pioneer moorings, Duck FRF, Duck FRF 26m, and Nags Head.
  • Station freshness: The map counts buoys with recent usable water-temperature observations and labels stale readings so they are not mistaken for current conditions.
  • Fire station weather: Currituck WeatherSTEM Carova Beach public portal data, with NWS point observations and forecast data as fallbacks where needed.
  • Forecast strips: Short hourly and daily summaries are normalized into compact cards so wind, precipitation chance, and temperature are comparable at a glance.

Live cam and caching

  • Surf cam: Corolla Light Resort's Vista Webcams HLS stream, click-to-play only. Unloads when the tab is hidden or the card scrolls off-screen so bandwidth is not wasted.
  • Refresh cadence: Server snapshots are cached briefly to keep the dashboard fast and avoid repeatedly hammering public data providers.
  • Local fallback: The browser keeps the latest valid snapshot in local storage, then clearly marks the dashboard as cached if a refresh fails.
  • Known gaps: Tide predictions are guidance rather than observed water level, buoy observations can lag, and the live cam depends on third-party stream availability.