Warmest Water in Years - June 2, 2002

AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature Image They say records are made to be broken, and this year we are breaking the all time temperature highs in the New York Bight. The National Weather Service at Mount Holly released a statement this morning saying "Buoy 44009 located 26 nautical miles southeast of Cape May NJ hit an alltime record high water temperature of 83.1 degrees Thursday Afternoon." Temperatures throughout the bight are in the upper 70s to low 80s. If you don't enjoy swimming in the ocean because it's too cold, this is definitely the time to take a dip.

Yearly ssts at the LEO research site: Here we have a plot of 9 years of sea surface temperature data at the LEO research site. Yesterday's Temperature of 26.6 degrees C (80 F) is the highest we have seen since we started archiving data.