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Station 46087 - Neah Bay - 6 NM North of Cape Flattery, WA (Traffic Separation Lighted Buoy)
Funding provided by the United States Coast Guard
Owned and maintained by National Data Buoy Center
3-meter discus buoy
SCOOP payload
48.493 N 124.727 W (48°29'36" N 124°43'38" W)
Water depth: 262.4 m
Watch circle radius: 212 yards
Meteorological Observations from Nearby Stations and Ships 
No Current Reports
Links which are specific to this station are listed below:
Data for last 24 hours:These real time data have undergone gross error checking only. Please use with discretion.
- Real time hourly standard meteorological
and hourly continuous winds data directory
with standard meteorological description and continuous winds description.
- Real time hourly standard meteorological
and hourly continuous winds data directory
Data for last 5 days:These real time data have undergone gross error checking only. Please use with discretion.
- Real time standard meteorological data and their description.
- Real time spectral wave data and their description.
Data for last 45 days:These real time data have undergone gross error checking only. Please use with discretion.
- Real time standard meteorological data and their description.
- Real time spectral wave data and their description.
- Real time raw spectral wave data and their description.
- Real time raw spectral wave (alpha1) data and their description.
- Real time raw spectral wave (alpha2) data and their description.
- Real time raw spectral wave (r1) data and their description.
- Real time raw spectral wave (r2) data and their description.
- Real time supplemental measurements data and their description.
- Real time derived measurements data and their description.
- Quality controlled data for 2025 (data descriptions)
- Standard meteorological data: Jan Feb Mar Apr
- Spectral wave density data: Jan Feb Mar Apr
- Spectral wave (alpha1) direction data: Jan Feb Mar Apr
- Spectral wave (alpha2) direction data: Jan Feb Mar Apr
- Spectral wave (r1) direction data: Jan Feb Mar Apr
- Spectral wave (r2) direction data: Jan Feb Mar Apr
- Supplemental Measurements data: Jan Feb Mar Apr
- Historical data (data descriptions)
- Standard meteorological data: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024
- Continuous winds data: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
- Spectral wave density data: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024
- Spectral wave (alpha1) direction data: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024
- Spectral wave (alpha2) direction data: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024
- Spectral wave (r1) direction data: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024
- Spectral wave (r2) direction data: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024
- Ocean current data: 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
- Supplemental measurements data: 2022 2023 2024
- Search historical meteorological data for observations that meet your threshold conditions
- Climatic summary table (TXT) and plots of (description of tables and plots)
Some data files have been compressed with the GNU gzip program.
The weekly status report and the weekly maintenance report also provide valuable station information.
Note that the payload types and the station locations occasionally change.
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