100F water temp?

[Ptarmigan]

The Persian Gulf is a desert not because of the lack of moisture in the lower levels (they have the highest average Summer dewpoints in the World to go with the SSTs) but because of intense capping from subsidence and very warm air aloft from the Subtropical High. Yuma and SoCA Deserts from Needles south often see dewpoints in the high 70's and low 80's and they frequently get no rain from that moisture for the same reason. In order to see activity under those conditions one needs some source of dynamics to provide lift which in the case of Yuma is frequently a MCV or wave disturbance that has crossed Mexico from the GOM.

Steve

That is really unbearable.

[Frank2]

Incredible as it sounds, NOAA has said that the biggest problem for the automated bouys is not rouge waves or even hurricanes, but - vandalism caused by boaters with little else to do...

No doubt that temp is due to broken equipment...

"Nice" folks out there...

Frank

[Category 5]

100 degrees?

Ether the reading is being taken in an inch of water, or it's malfunctioning.

[Dionne]

Incredible as it sounds, NOAA has said that the biggest problem for the automated bouys is not rouge waves or even hurricanes, but - vandalism caused by boaters with little else to do...

No doubt that temp is due to broken equipment...

"Nice" folks out there...

Frank

NOAA did put out a bulletin about the vandalism problem on buoys. As I recall all but one of the problem areas was on the west coast of CONUS.....( in the Pacific). Prolly disenchanted trust fund hippies and such.....

[kevin]

42014 is a USF buoy. Alot of their buoys are down. Check the adjacent buoys. None of them are recording water temps that high. It's an instrumentation problem.

That explains it all. USF buoy. If it were a UF buoy it wouldn't be malfunctioning.

[tbstorm]

The Persian Gulf is a desert not because of the lack of moisture in the lower levels (they have the highest average Summer dewpoints in the World to go with the SSTs) but because of intense capping from subsidence and very warm air aloft from the Subtropical High. Yuma and SoCA Deserts from Needles south often see dewpoints in the high 70's and low 80's and they frequently get no rain from that moisture for the same reason. In order to see activity under those conditions one needs some source of dynamics to provide lift which in the case of Yuma is frequently a MCV or wave disturbance that has crossed Mexico from the GOM.

Steve

Actually I believe the reason it is so dry there has to do with the Indian Monsoon. All the rising air over India goes into the upper atmosphere and sinks over the Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf. Also there are some very high mountians in Iran wich would lead to the air over adjacent water being capped pretty strongly with a strong inversion off the desert mountians.

[tbstorm]

Oh also Somalia is a desert because of the Somali Low Level Jet Stream that flows at low levels from Somolia/Kenya into India, and the accelerating (entrance) region leads to divergence at the surface so no clouds form.. India gets all the storms.

[TampaSteve]

Sorry...those 100+ degree readings are my fault...I took the buoy home with me last weekend and left it sitting in the hot tub...I'll be returning it tomorrow morning, I promise...again, sorry about that, guys...

[feederband]

Sorry...those 100+ degree readings are my fault...I took the buoy home with me last weekend and left it sitting in the hot tub...I'll be returning it tomorrow morning, I promise...again, sorry about that, guys...

That would probably explain the beer content that is registering in that water then..

[kevin]

Cause of desert formation showdown!

*grabs popcorn and sits down to watch*

[TampaSteve]

Sorry...those 100+ degree readings are my fault...I took the buoy home with me last weekend and left it sitting in the hot tub...I'll be returning it tomorrow morning, I promise...again, sorry about that, guys...

That would probably explain the beer content that is registering in that water then..

You mean "processed" beer...