BayWaves — a week of Chesapeake Bay, running live

BayWaves One Week on Chesapeake Bay
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BayWaves

for the family, summer on the Bay

One short clip of chop off a dock on the Chesapeake became the water you're looking at — its wave shapes, its murky green, the small breaking crests. From there it's rebuilt as a living surface, layered from big slow swell down to the little ripples riding on top of it.

Left running, it drifts through a real week: seven real days' worth of temperature, wind, and wave height recorded at this exact spot, stitched into one loop so the water and light keep changing — calmer some hours, choppier others, day into night into day — and it shouldn't repeat itself while you watch.

Drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, and use the controls to pause, or fast-forward through the week.

Location — 38.7319°N, 76.2350°W · Chesapeake Bay
Weather & wave data — Open-Meteo historical & marine archives
BayWaves
finding the water…