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Florida just had the hottest recorded ocean temperature. Here’s what that means for the environment
This year’s summer of record-breaking, extreme heat set another milestone Monday when a buoy in Manatee Bay just off the coast southwestern Florida registered an ocean temperature of 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit. The latest readings continue a month-long trend of bath-like ocean temperatures in...
This year’s summer of record-breaking heat set another milestone Monday when a buoy in Manatee Bay just off the coast southwestern Florida registered an ocean temperature of 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit. This follows the same buoy reading of 100.2°F on Sunday. The previous world record for warmest ocean temperature was 99.7°F in Kuwait Bay, according to a 2020 study
The latest readings continue a monthlong trend of bath-like temperatures in Florida waters that could have devastating effects on plant and animal life.
“This is shocking, it’s unprecedented,” Stefanie Sekich, of the Surfrider Foundation, an ocean-protection advocacy group, told Yahoo News. “It’s actually quite frightening.”