The seawater temperature recorder at station 19-10 in Patton Cove
along the </span>Diablo Canyon coastline was swapped-out on Friday.
The average seawater temperature for the month of April was 49.52
degrees F which was the coldest monthly average temperature for
any month since temperatures records have been kept at The Diablo
Canyon Ocean Lab (1976). <span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:bold">On the 22nd of April the water temperature
reached a low of 47.35 degrees which was the lowest single water
temperature ever recorded at station 19-10</span></span>.
Intake seawater temperatures will range between 49° and 52° today
through Friday.
Oh yeah, the water has been unusually cold this season. I was out at HMB last weekend and two waves later, suffered a full on ice-cream headache. I’m usually toasty in my 4/3 but I’ve been shivering my butt off in the lineup lately. I heard it is due to La Nina…
We were at HMB on Saturday and lots of people looked quite chilly.
The water was cool for sure; but the wind came up in the afternoon
and just added to the fun.
The waves were actually decent though!
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Oh yeah, the water has been unusually cold this season. I was out at HMB last weekend and two waves later, suffered a full on ice-cream headache. I’m usually toasty in my 4/3 but I’ve been shivering my butt off in the lineup lately. I heard it is due to La Nina…
Howzit John, I read an item in the newspaper yesterday that we are entering a cold spell that may last as long as 15 years then it back to global warming. This could be the start of the cold period.Aloha,Kokua
I totally agree! I was FREEZING last Saturday - actually shivering in the line up after 30 minutes. But I do recall being this cold pretty often in the 80s. I was thinking it was because the wetsuit were worse, but if we are in a cooling trend, that would sure make sense!
Marin you say? Isn’t that near Stinson Beach? I’m going to be at Stinson June 8th and was hope to take a quick dip. I won’t have a wetsuit so there no way I’m swiming in 42 degrees.
Howzit John, I read an item in the newspaper yesterday that we are entering a cold spell that may last as long as 15 years then it back to global warming. This could be the start of the cold period.Aloha,Kokua
I read an item in the newspaper yesterday that we are entering a cold spell that may last as long as 15 years then it back to global warming. This could be the start of the cold period
Fifteen years is a microsecond in geologic time…there’s a 50/50 scientific chance that global warming is going to be put off for fifteen years only if a Democrat is elected to the U.S. presidency. If you get my drift. The weather people can hardly guess what’s going to happen 3 days out. We can forecast anything…but the only thing anybody seems able to predict with any accuracy is the past!
Which isn’t to say a week or so ago when Zuma was registering 51-52 degrees I wasn’t considering sacrificing a goat…
If I predict that the trend is toward cooler temperatures, do you think I have a chance to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Doug
Go for the gusto, predict a full-on ice age with mammoths and saber toothed tigers returning to the American plains. Frick, you’ll get more than a Nobel, the GOP will nominate you for McCain’s VP.
I was reading an article in a science mag’ on a tree ring study on a tree that was like 1 or 2 thousand years old. I forget exactly but it was super old. There was a lot of elaborate information about how the rings, cell structure, chemistry, etc. could tell us a lot about the weather during the life of the tree. They even had a chart of average annual temperature over that time. It waved like a tide chart with peaks and valleys. Lo and behold we are currently on an upslope according to the tree that was actually around through those years. Even though we’re on an upslope now, there were several peaks higher than we are now. Those higher peaks were hundreds of years before the industrial age. Hmm? I wonder how the humans managed to change the temperature of the earth back then?
Well, according to Mr. Gore there are two types of people, the scientists and the skeptics. Funny, I thought these tree people were scientists. I guess since they didn’t say a word about global warming they can keep their title as scientist regardless of how their data lines up. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to lose their scientist titles and be labeled skeptics. Skeptics are bad.
Precisely. The unbiased, pure acedemic, is scarce if not a myth entirely.
Return to topic. Based on my local water temps we’re experiencing local cooling here in SoCal. It’s just starting to hit 59/60ish. A week ago it was still 56. That’s mid-winter stuff. Although based on what Benny said I should just quit my whining. Just a couple more degrees and I’ll be springing it. C’mon warming trend.