Station 44066 (LLNR 3) - Texas Tower #4 - 75 NM East of Long Beach, NJ
Owned and maintained by National Data Buoy Center 3-meter foam buoy SCOOP payload 39.618 N 72.644 W (39°37'5" N 72°38'37" W)
Site elevation: sea level Air temp height: 3.7 m above site elevation Anemometer height: 4.1 m above site elevation Barometer elevation: 2.7 m above mean sea level Sea temp depth: 1.5 m below water line Water depth: 78 m Watch circle radius: 155 yards
Right whales are active off NJ from November to April. Speed restrictions of 10 knots apply to vessels 65 feet or greater in specific areas along the mid-Atlantic coast. To learn more about right whales and rules protecting them, go to: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/shipstrike
Note that the payload types and the station locations occasionally change.
Please refer to the NDBC data inventory
for the data history of each station.