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NOAA Marine Forecast: Buoycast

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What is NOAA Marine Forecast?

Buoycast displays wind, waves, water temperature, and pressure measured by 1,000+ NOAA NDBC buoys, organized around the user's location and favorite spots. It adds NOAA marine forecasts, tide predictions for today, and sunrise, sunset, and moon phase data. A Buoycast Pro subscription adds threshold notifications, interactive weather maps, and NOAA alerts as push notifications.

Pricing. NOAA Marine Forecast: Buoycast is free to download on the App Store.

Good for

  • Checking wind and waves at a nearby buoy before leaving the dock
  • Planning a boating, sailing, or kayaking trip around current coastal conditions
  • Tracking tides and NOAA marine forecasts for favorite coastal spots

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Description

Know the real conditions on the water before you leave the dock. On the water since 2017, with 200,000+ downloads and 10,000+ five-star ratings from boaters, anglers, sailors, kayakers, and coastal homeowners. Buoycast shows you the wind, waves, and water temperature actually happening out there right now, measured on the water by 1,000+ NOAA buoys, not modeled from a land forecast. Marine forecasts, tides, and NOAA alerts layer on top, organized around your location and your favorite spots. Your closest buoy is on the home screen. Everything else is one more tap away. Free - Real-time wind, waves, temperature, and pressure from 1,000+ NOAA NDBC buoys - NOAA marine forecasts from 300+ coastal and offshore zones - A severity gauge and plain-language summary on every buoy - Current and hourly weather for your location - Tide predictions for today - Sunrise, sunset, and moon phase - Apple Watch app with buoy observations, forecasts, tides, and more - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch Buoycast Pro - Threshold notifications: get pushed when wind, waves, gusts, temperature, or pressure at any buoy crosses the line you set, with AND/OR logic for combined conditions - De

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Questions about NOAA Marine Forecast

Is the buoy data modeled from a land forecast?

No. The wind, waves, and water temperature are measured on the water by 1,000+ NOAA buoys, not modeled from a land forecast.

What is included for free?

Real-time buoy data, NOAA marine forecasts from 300+ zones, a severity gauge on each buoy, hourly weather, tide predictions for today, sunrise, sunset, moon phase, and an Apple Watch app.

What does Buoycast Pro add?

Threshold notifications, 12-hour history, future predictions, interactive weather maps, NOAA watches and warnings as push notifications, Apple Watch complications, widgets, and no ads.

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All the facts

Price
Free download
App Store rating
4.6 out of 5
Number of ratings
13,639
Current version
(13 days ago)
App Store data read
App Store category
Weather
Good for
Checking wind and waves at a nearby buoy before leaving the dock, Planning a boating, sailing, or kayaking trip around current coastal conditions, Tracking tides and NOAA marine forecasts for favorite coastal spots
Requires
iOS 18.0 or later
Size
226 MB
Age rating
4+
Languages
1
Maker
unclaimed
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