Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for September 2020
Surf had a Low of 74°, high of 85° with an average of 80.0°, a couple degrees above normal. Sound had a Low of 64° on the first day of fall but a high of 88° and an average of 78.2°. Sept. surf and sound temperatures showed a typical drop as we got into fall and are now under 12 hours of daylight. By the end of Sept. we had 23 named storms now into the Greek Alphabet α (Sep), β (Sep) and a few more as we are now into October and up to 25 named storms. Check out the graph, blue diamonds are the surf, red squares are the sound temperatures.
Took 3 tries to haul out the SUV from something approximating quicksand.
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for August 2020
Surf had a Low of 81°, high of 85° with an average of 82.9°, a little above normal. Sound also had a Low of 81° but a high of 88° and an average of 84.2°. August surf temperatures were fairly flat with a very slight negative slope. Ditto for Bogue Sound temperatures. Early in the month Isaias visited us and by the end of the month notched 13 named storms. Check out the graph, blue diamonds are the surf, red squares are the sound temperatures.
Surf had a Low of 79°, high of 85° with an average of 82.5°, 1.6° above normal. Sound had a Low of 82° and high of 87°and an average of 85.2°. July surf temperatures were fairly flat with a very slight positive slope. Ditto for Bogue Sound temperatures. Check out the graph, blue diamonds are the surf, red squares are the sound temperatures. By the way, July was another a fairly dry month after the deluge of May and June. We are already up to 9-named storms by the end of July.
Surf had a Low of 73°, high of 79° with an average of 76.5°, a tad below normal. Sound had a Low of 70° and high of 84°(14° range) and an average of 78.4°. June surf temperatures were fairly flat with a very slight positive slope. Check out the graph, blue diamonds are the surf, red squares are the sound temperatures. By the way, June was another very wet month totaling nearly 9-inches leaving the sound and backwaters very dirty. That’s over 22-inches for May and June combined.
