I saw this water temp near the FL coast while looking at buoys and thought it was very interesting! I do not know if it is bad data or what, but 100F water is very hot!
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100F water temp?
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'CaneFreak
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Re: 100F water temp?
Its bogus...I wouldn't read into it too much...I dont know that a 100 degree water temp has ever been measured or that a SST change has been that great over such a short period of time:)
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Re: 100F water temp?
Duddy wrote:You sound like a skeptic off a weather movie.
"It's probably nothing"
lol
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Re: 100F water temp?
The only other thing I could think of is an upwelling of some sort. Not likely though IMO.
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Re: 100F water temp?
It's got to be a mistake. If it was real, we could get some monsterous hurricanes or God forbid a hypercane.
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Re: 100F water temp?
Note that the supposed reading occurred at 1:14 AM. Also note that even at mid day, the water temp exceeded the air temp.
The thermocouple is out of calibration.
The thermocouple is out of calibration.
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Re: 100F water temp?
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
Steve
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Re: 100F water temp?
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.
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Re: 100F water temp?
Dionne wrote: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.
Thanks for the confirmation.
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Derek Ortt
Re: 100F water temp?
if that 100F was true (and it likely is not), it means NOTHING.
The depth of the warm water (heat content) is a better oceanic variable to examine. A very thin SST layer does not help very much (see the Northern GOM)
The depth of the warm water (heat content) is a better oceanic variable to examine. A very thin SST layer does not help very much (see the Northern GOM)
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