Seawater Temp

[john_morris_uk]

Is there a website that gives the up to date seawater temperature of the sea? Ideally I want to know what the seawater temp is off Plymouth at the moment. I don't believe the figure on the ST60 and want to reset it and I haven't got a thermometer!

Ok if I got off my backside I could borrow a proper thermometer off the Hydrographic Surveyors at work but I am being idle. I've tried googling, but without success.

 

[Talbot]

Dont know what it is at Plymouth, but Bramblemet shows that it is 19.9 deg C

 

[jerryat]

Hi John,

How interesting! I was mucking about with my ST60 set-up a couple of days ago and was pondering exactly the same question!! I decided, from something I saw on the box, that for our area it was currently about 16 degs C.

No idea whether that's a fact, but that's what mine now reads! I'll await with interest the actual answer. Of course, in the 'old' days, we could have just called RAF Mountbatten!! Ah well, the march of progress! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Cheers Jerry

 

[john_morris_uk]

Actually, I suspect I could just call one of the survey ships in the squadron, but as the only local one is alongside in the Tamar, I wasn't sure whether the river temp might not be different? Actually, come to think of it I could ask them that as well. I will try to remember tomorrow when I am in work...

 

[jerryat]

Hi John,

Look forwards to their answer. Yes, it would be nice to know the temp. of the Tamar as that's where my mooring is. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Cheers Jerry

 

[tonyran]

Sea water temperature in Poros yesterday was 29.6 Celsius

 

[Vara]

Yes http://www.getaforecast.com/weatherpix-seatemp.htm

 

[john_morris_uk]

Its helpful answers like that that can make you go off people...

 

[powerskipper]

Its cold in the Solent , stuck my bare toe in the water last week. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Sgeir]

Is it me...

.. or is this the daftest thing to appear on BBC weather website?

The text reads, and I kid you not:

The SEA TEMPERATURES chart shows the expected temperatures at lunchtime on the day shown. The colours used are explained in the temperature conversion key and range from dark blue (extremely cold) to white (very warm). This chart is updated once daily in the morning.

Well, I'll be dipped in dogshit!

 

[Pisces]

Re: Is it me...

Channel light ship - if you fancy a little round trip.....

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=62103

should be within a degree or two of where you are

 

[BrendanS]

Quick google found the following. Note that satellites read surface temperature. If your probe is a few meters down, the temp could be a few degrees different! Depends how calm the sea is, and if any stratification is occuring

http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/meteo/winfos/snoweuropa.gif
http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/PTUK21.TIF
http://uk.weather.com/maps/geography/intleurope/ukcurrentseasurfacetemps_large.html
http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/ukm.html
http://www.windfinder.com/weather/water_temp.htm
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=62103

There are a lot more. What did you search on? I used satellite sea temperature uk

 

[Sui Generis]

My ST 60 overreads by at least 3 degrees. Its's definately telling porkies, according to my toes. . .
If you don't want cold feet, allow for an offset!!

BTW, SST around 16 deg C at the mo off Devon and Cornwall apparently. Still a bit chill to my mind

 

[john_morris_uk]

For those who were interested I have got off my backside and gone and talked to the Oceanographic Officer on one of the Survey Squadron Ships this morning.

In the absence of sunshine, the current surface seawater temperature in the Tamar at 1000 this morning was 16.3 degrees. He didn't expect there to be a marked difference between the river and the sea outside. Surface technically means the first two metres of the sea.

He did remark that the channel is unusually warm at the moment.

In the interests of science I am borrowing a 'bucket' as it is called - a seawater thermometer with a cage to measure the temp at the same depth as the transducer.

Does this make me a seawater temperature anorak?

Anyway, for those who wish to correct their ST60 temp readings, the end is in sight.

 

[jerryat]

Hi John!!

Many thank for that. I think my 16degsC that I adjusted mine to will do then. Nice to get it confirmed. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Interesting that they reckon the river/sea temperature to be the same, I always assumed it would be warmer in the river because of the water passing over the 'heated' mud at each tide and the run-off from the warmer land.

Cheers Jerry

 

[KevB]

Just over 18 deg at the entrance of Chichester harbour at the moment

CHIMET

And here are a load more observation buoys BBC