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Like a hot tub: Water temperatures off Florida soar over 100 degrees
- hunkins 3y agoSix sigma arctic ice melting as well. The acceleration curve has started.
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- jjgreen 3y agoFahrenheit one would hope ...
- myshpa 3y agoYes, upto 102F ... 38.9C for the rest of the world
- jjgreen 3y agoA middling fever then.
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- below43 3y agoIt would be helpful if people put the unit of measurement in the title for articles like this
- serf 3y agoon one hand , yes specificity is king. on the other hand.. if the sea was at 212f (100c) I feel like it'd be reported by a wider swath of news outlets.
- inkeddeveloper 3y agoNo one in their right mind would read that title and think 100 degrees Celsius.
- lazide 3y agoNothing says news like the ocean boiling like a teakettle making sealife stew. On the plus side, jambalaya. On the minus side, ecological catastrophe.
- this_steve_j 3y agoThis summer I have been keeping my Florida hot tub temperature at 94°F, which is reportedly 7.1 degrees lower than most others. It’s pleasantly refreshing and usually cooler than both the wet bulb temperature and the bag of water attached to my neurons. Never been much of an ocean swimmer myself, but I am curious about the heat-enhancing properties of the layer of water where the reading was taken. I’m headed there now to read the NOAA Coastal Water Temperatures Guide (hot tub, not Manatee Bay) which has an interactive map. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/coastal-water-temperature-guide https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/coastal-water-temperature...
- this_steve_j 3y agoHere is NOAA’s Heat Stress Gauge and Time Series data web site for the Florida Keys area which shows the likelihood of coral bleaching due to thermal stress. https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/gauges/florida_keys.php https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/gauges/florida_ke...