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.
http://www.solunarforecast.com/
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.
Ocean Bar – https://saw-nav.usace.army.mil/INLETS/BOGUE/Bogue_Inlet_OB.pdf
Connecting Channel from AIWW – https://saw-nav.usace.army.mil/INLETS/BOGUE/Bogue_Inlet_Inside.pdf
Inside edge (beach facing) and drop-off of an outer sand bar.
Above Sandbar at high tide with red and black drum and flounder feeding on the backdrop and in the slough. Anglers Mark Z and Marine Richard fishing the backside with blue crab pieces with a couple good days with black and red drum.
Below, slough/droppoff filling in just one month later!!
Sandbar (white water to the right) and sandbar edge and drop off into deeper water (calm water to the left).
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for May 2020
Surf had a Low of 65°, high of 77° with an average of 69.7°, spot-on normal. Sound had a Low of 61° and high of 80°(19° range) and an average of 71.3°. May water temperatures climbed nicely through the month and a plot through the surf temperature data showed about 0.35°/day rise (slope of the line) in surf temperatures. Check out the graph, blue diamonds are the surf, red squares are the sound temperatures. By the way, it was a very wet month totaling 13.17″ leaving the sound and backwaters very dirty.
