Small Craft Should Exercise Caution for Increasing Winds off of the Upper Keys.
Today, light to gentle SW to W breezes, increasing to gentle to moderate, except increasing to moderate to fresh on Hawk Channel and Florida Straits off the Upper Keys. Bay/Gulfside seas 1-2 ft, Hawk Channel seas 1-2 ft, FL Straits seas 1-3 ft, SE Gulf 1-2 ft. Bay/nearshore waters smooth a light chop, becoming a light to moderate chop, except becoming a moderate chop to choppy in Hawk Channel off the Upper Keys. Slight chance for showers and thunderstorms.