Weather Monitoring and Forecasting Information for the Gulf of Mexico Basin. Click the links to go to the external websites for the weather information.
Figure 1) (above) This site gives a detailed Marine weather forecast for these quadrants of offshore Texas.
Figure 2) (above) TABS Texas Automated Buoy System nearshore weather bouys Padre Island Texas. The link above will take you to the data page for Buoy 42020 (pictured below). You can review all the meteorological data collected with in the last few days and also see graphs of the trends.
Figure 3) Buoy 42020 (pictured above).
Figure 4) Wave height graph from bouy 42020
Figure 5) TABS Texas Automated Buoy System for Western Gulf of Mexico.
This site gives a detailed Gulf wide map view forecast of Wave Height based on current weather models. See Below.
HURRICANE IKE in the GULF OF MEXICO (below)
on September 12, 2008 Padre Island is visible in the clear area to the west of Hurricane IKE. Not a good day for Pelagic Birding.