The historically high ocean temperatures could spell disaster for the area’s wildlife.
There is a menses of time in belated Florida summertime when you could wade into the water and it will feel warm , like bathing tub water . Normally , these days come in previous August , when the relentless Sunday has been heat up the weewee for calendar month — it ’s a planetary house that thehottest dayshave passed . One last raging hurrah before things cool down off a turn in the fall . Except now , in the currentclimate crisis , shift out tub tub temperatures for hot tub heating system , and change out the andiron days of summer for the middle of July .
TheAssociated Pressreports that the urine temperature around the southernmost part of Florida of late reached triple finger . The 101.1 stage Fahrenheit reading could be the hot seawater temperature ever register and almost 1.5 degrees hotter than any temperature antecedently recorded . And unfortunately , this historical heat is just a record breaking novelty . The hot H2O is destroy coral and Florida ’s Rand systems .
Another effect of these mellow temperature ? More storms . Hot sea temperatures are a reproduction terra firma for strong storm systems , and the abnormally warm waters could get on a vicious hurricane season in the Atlantic . Scientists are deeply concerned by the reading .
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" I ’m nervous by how other this is happen , " Ian Enochs , lead of the coral program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory , secernate the APabout the triple - digit readings .
" This is a hot tub . I like my hot vat around 100 , 101 , ( 37.8 , 38.3 C ) . That ’s what was tape yesterday,“saidYale Climate Connections meteorologist Jeff Masters . " We ’ve never seen a disc - breaking event like this before . "
The record water temperature readings come as the United States and other parts of the world experience record heat waving that areexpected to continuethroughout the summer and intensify every year going forwards .
