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This beautiful image of global weather conditions is a screen shot from the http://earth.nullschool.net site. The green circle shows the approximate location of Axial Seamount.

Over July 15-16, the wind shifted from westerly to northerly and increased from ~12-16 kts to 22-27 kts . Wind waves increased from ~3’ to 5-6’ during that time. The forecast is for the wind to remain sustained from 25-30 kts from the north and wind waves from 2-3m (6-10’) until Friday morning, when the wind should both shift direction and drop to ~10 kts.