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amazing this is all summer can muster the past few years...we've had weeks of heat in previous summers.

 

Nice 72 hours of strong heat but nothing close to 10,11,12 or 13 yet this summer.  Looks like next shot at some heat (90+) will come in a week or so on/around 7/29-ish

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Just keep in mind that those upper 70s/80 degree readings are surface water temps. Like the upper 3-6 feet (I forget exactly what depth the bouys take the temp).10-15 feet down, and the water cools off pretty fast. Probably mid/low 60s. Tropical storms like deep warm water. When storms come near this area the swell out ahead of them obviously causes turbulence and upwells the colder water below. If we get a storm that passes even a few hundred miles offshore you will see surface temps drop.

All in all though, really great to see the temps rebound like this after the crazy cold winter. To be honest I think it's been the rather high nightly low temps that have allowed the oceans to warm. Pretty amazing to live in an area where ocean temps can go from low 30s to near 80 in less than 6 months.

Exactly. All it takes is a couple of hours of offshore winds and water temps plummet to the mid 60s as warm surface water is blown out and cold water from deeper down is upwelled

Also biggest water recovery I have ever seen here

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