{"id":335570,"date":"2024-07-05T07:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T05:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335570"},"modified":"2024-07-05T07:40:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T05:40:38","slug":"not-all-the-seas-are-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335570","title":{"rendered":"Not All the Seas are Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

News Brief by Kip Hansen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the news channels  banging on about hot hot hot water \u2013 Atlantic water, Gulf of Mexico water,  the Caribbean water, Western Pacific water off of Australia \u2014 I mean, one would think the seas are boiling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last couple of weeks, the another side of the story has emerged:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California Water Temperatures Drop to Dangerous Levels \u2014 Jun 21, 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA recent temperature reading off the coast of Crescent City [California] revealed that water temperatures were 47.3 degrees Fahrenheit, more than 3 degrees below normal for this time of year and 4 degrees below winter water temperatures in January.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meteorologists and weather experts are blaming the temperature plunge on an \u201cintense marine cold spell<\/strong>.\u201d\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201c\u201dAn intense marine cold spell is gripping the Northern and Central California coast, with water temperatures up to 5\u00b0F below normal,\u201d storm chaser Colin McCarthy posted on X <\/a>(formerly Twitter<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He continued: \u201cA buoy near Crescent City reported a water temperature of 46\u00b0F yesterday. In waters that cold, hypothermia can occur in as little as 30 minutes. These well below normal water temperatures due to strong upwelling of cold ocean water are enhancing the marine layer or \u2018natural AC,\u2019 keeping coastal areas cool while inland areas experience intense heat (100-108\u00b0F in the Central Valley  Saturday).\u201d  <\/em>[ Newsweek<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, in the middle of the country:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake Michigan water temperature drops nearly 20 degrees since yesterday, NWS says<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe U.S. National Weather Service saw nearly 20-degree water temperature drops offshore from Port Sheldon and South Haven since yesterday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u201dUntil the water warms back up, beware of cold water shock (don\u2019t dive into the water\u2026 your body may involuntarily inhale), and hypothermia after just 1 hour,\u201d the NWS warned in their Facebook post.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Hypothermia:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHypothermia, defined as a core body temperature lower than 35 C (95 F), may be classified as acute, sub-acute, or chronic. Acute hypothermia is caused by a rapid loss of body heat, usually from immersion in cold water. Sub-acute hypothermia often occurs from exposure to cool weather (below 10 C (50 F)) outdoors, in combination with wind chill, wet or inadequate clothing, fatigue, and\/or inadequate nutrition. Chronic hypothermia in predisposed persons generally occurs from exposure to cold temperatures (below 16 C (60 F)) indoors over a prolonged period. Predisposed persons have an impaired perception of cold; decreased mobility; and inadequate nutrition, clothing, and heating systems.\u201d [ CDC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bottom Line:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in sunny southern California, sea water can be cold enough to cause dangerous hypothermia in the unprepared, the old, the very young and those especially susceptible to cold.   The same is true of lake water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Know the water temperature before you swim or let your children enter the water.  Surfers and other water sports enthusiasts should wear thermal protection \u2014 wet suits<\/a> \u2014 appropriate to the temperature. Thin \u201cskins<\/a>\u201d ( 1 mm) are not enough protection for water as cold as in these two weather alerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many representations of sea surface temperature report \u201cskin temperature<\/a>\u201d down to a whopping 1 mm. . Don\u2019t be fooled by the constant drumbeat of \u201cboiling seas\u201d \u2013 the temperature of the sea water and lake water is a very local phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author\u2019s Comment:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spirit of full disclosure, as a teen, I was a \u201cSouthern California Surfer Boy\u201d \u2014  right out of a Beach Boys\u2019 song.  One calendar year, I calculated that I had spent at least some part of 200 (out of 365) days on the beach \u2014 in all weathers \u2014 despite attending high school and living more than 5 miles from the beach.  But, I was a small, skinny kid and had to have a custom surfboard made short enough for me to handle.  Today, that 8\u20196\u201d board would be considered a \u201clong board<\/a>\u201d.  With no body fat to speak of, I would get hypothermic fairly rapidly and retreat to the sand to warm up in the Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During our decade+ living on our sailing catamaran in the Caribbean, my wife and I discovered that the sea water temperature was wildly variable, horizontally and vertically.  Warm, almost hot, at the surface, and quite cold at 20 feet.  Cold here but warm 50 feet away in a errant current. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the news channels banging on about hot hot hot water \u2013 Atlantic water, Gulf of Mexico water, the Caribbean water, Western Pacific water off of Australia \u2014 I mean, one would think the seas are boiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":335576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691829547,691825166,691828141],"class_list":{"0":"post-335570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-hypothermia","9":"tag-temperatures-of-the-ocean","10":"tag-water-temperatures","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0-Ice-water-swimming.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1piq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":426165,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=426165","url_meta":{"origin":335570,"position":0},"title":"El Ni\u00f1o weather aspects: Summer, the hurricane season, and next winter","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"14\/02\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The forecast calling for an El Ni\u00f1o makes sense in the context of the natural cycle of these events. 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