Northeast Offshore Intel · live SST + reports

°F scale — squeeze it tight around the break (say 60–72°) to make the edge pop. One scale drives all three SST layers — GOES-19, Blended MUR, and High-res.

Now the default SST layer. The sharp single-pass detail the blended layers smooth away — the actual temperature breaks & fingers the canyon fleet keys on. NOAA ACSPO super-collated (AVHRR + VIIRS), near-real-time daily, with thermal fronts. The °F sliders above drive its color scale. Cloud gaps show through — step to MUR for gap-free. Shares the Layer-opacity slider.

Colored field = wind speed (knots); black arrows fly downwind. Covers the US East Coast out to Bermuda — zoom out for the whole field, in for denser arrows. Slide to scrub 3 days.

Colored field = wave height (ft); black arrows run downswell. Works out in the canyons. Slide to scrub 3 days.

Wash = visibility (nm): magenta/red where it’s socked in, fading out as it clears — so the wash only appears where fog actually is. Pulls NOAA HRRR (3 km, hourly) over the shelf & canyons, GFS beyond — the model the official marine fog forecast leans on. Slide to watch fog roll in over 3 days. Atmospheric field, so genuine land fog can show too.

NWS base reflectivity (Iowa State Mesonet), refreshes ~5 min. Green→yellow→red = light→heavy. Land-based radar — coverage thins far offshore.

Dims the wind / wave / current color wash (arrows stay solid) so SST or chart shows through. 0 = arrows only.

Flowing particles on the top active vector layer — currents, else wind, else waves.

Colored field = current speed (kt); black arrows point the way it flows (toward). Model surface current (Copernicus SMOC, ~8 km) clipped to open water — good for set/drift & broad eddy circulation, not fine inshore fronts. Opacity = Vector field slider (Weather).

Temporarily unavailable. The free public satellite-salinity feeds that render as map tiles — NOAA's SMAP (last data Feb 2026) and SMOS (last data Dec 2025) — both stopped updating months ago, and the one current gap-free product (NASA OISSS) isn't served as tiles. Painting months-old salinity over the chart would mislead, so it's pulled. For the offshore water-mass boundary, the SST break already shows it. Ask in chat about the local OISSS option if you want current salinity badly enough to run a small prep step.

Live ocean color, 3 sensors stacked to fill gaps. Daily passes still leave cloud/orbit holes — step the day back for a cleaner look. Fish the clean blue side of the color edge.

Cloud-free daily color — gaps interpolated. Coarser (~9 km), slower service; shows the latest available day. Best for the big color pattern.

The actual look of the water — color, sediment plumes, clarity, and where the clouds are. One satellite pass per day, so clouds/gaps are transparent; step the day back for a cleaner shot. Pair it with SST to confirm a break is real.

Hill-shaded seafloor terrain — canyon walls, ridges, banks & lumps in 3-D relief. Toggle SST off to read the bottom. Authoritative offshore/deep; sparse in shallow nearshore water. Public domain (GEBCO / Seabed 2030).

Official U.S. nautical chart (soundings, depth contours, buoys, lights, wrecks, restricted areas) — the public-domain NOAA ENC rendered in S-52 / ECDIS symbology, the bridge-display look (S-52 presentation library 3.4). Drop the opacity to read depths over the SST break. Not for navigation.

Rec (pleasure/sailing) + commercial-fishing AIS only — no cargo/tankers/tugs. Land-based coverage, fades ~40–50 mi offshore; the canyons are not covered. No data loaded — run build_ais_recfish.py and refresh.

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Computed for the center of the map (), in your local time. Major windows (moon overhead & underfoot) are the prime bite; minor windows (moonrise / moonset) are shorter. Pan the map or step the day to update.

Click points on the map to total a run (NM + bearing).

Loops the last 7 days of whichever SST / chlorophyll layer is on — watch which way the break is pushing.

Pin size + brightness = recency: big/bright = last 3 days, medium = this week, small/faded = older.

SST: GOES-19 ABI L3C real-pass via NOAA CoastWatch THREDDS, plus NOAA ACSPO L3S high-res fronts (AVHRR+VIIRS, 2 km) and NASA MUR gap-free. Chlorophyll: NASA GIBS (L2) + NOAA CoastWatch (gap-filled). Radar: NWS / Iowa State. Bathymetry: Esri Ocean Basemap. Spot pins: solid diamond = charted feature/buoy; hollow amber diamond = approximate community mark — confirm on your plotter. Reports are the dated public ones from the latest scan — stripers are well-covered; bluefin/canyon are sparse & early because the live tuna intel lives in closed Facebook groups, the MFCC members' forum, and DMs that web search can't reach. Paste screenshots/texts from your groups and Claude will plot them as fresh pins.