At the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier in southern California, researchers logged the warmest sea surface temperature in 102 years. Tim Buss/Flickr hide caption Show
 ScienceMigrating Arctic Geese Are Confused, Exhausted By Rising TemperaturesThe water that laps against southern California has experienced "anomalously warm" temperatures, and it's consistent with high temperatures on land, the researchers said. Temperatures rose in 2014 during "the blob," a marine heat wave that started in the northern Pacific and spread along the coast, changing marine life and causing a massive bloom of toxic algae. "The temperatures we recorded ever since then were on a reset. They were at a higher level and never came back down," said Anderson. In 2015, a strong El Niño took its toll on California. And in that part of the Pacific, water temperatures, which Anderson said often return to historic averages after the climate phenomenon, never decreased. That is causing eyebrows to raise in the region. "Like other climate change trends, background warming enhances the probability and magnitude of extreme events," Scripps oceanographer Reinhard Flick said in the statement. Warmer waters could lead to another sprawling bloom of toxic algae, which harmed sea lions and other marine life, as well as caused fisheries to close. It could also bring stingrays to shore and lead to more jelly fish in the ocean, altering the food web for marine life. Rising ocean temperatures are not just a problem for the West coast. The last three decades have seen consistently higher sea surface temperatures than at any other time since 1880, when reliable observations started, the Environmental Protection Agency said. Environment2017 Was One Of The Hottest Years On RecordOn land, last year was the warmest non-El Niño year ever recorded, according to NOAA, as NPR's Laurel Wamsley reported. "This is how global warming will play out," the researchers said. Heat records will become "easier to break" and people will see the mounting effects of climate change. "If you put everything together — wildfire explosions on the West coast and the increases in air temperatures, combined with rising seawater temperature — it's telling us a story," said Anderson. "We need to respond to that story." Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on FlipboardShare via Email CommentsU.S. Climate Change San diego California Water temperature readings off the coast of San Diego on August 9 are believed to be the highest ever measured in California waters. Two buoys off the coast logged a sea-surface temperature of 81.3 degrees Fahrenheit, surpassing an earlier high temperature set on August 2. The two buoys, the Torrey Pines buoy, located 7.3 miles from the coast, and the Scripps Neashore buoy, located about a mile offshore, are managed by Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California. "We've been measuring water temperature with our wave buoys since the 1990s, and this is the warmest we've seen in those two-plus decades," James Behrens, the principal engineer for the Scripps Coastal Data Information Program, told The San Francisco Chronicle. Miguel Miller, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's San Diego office, told the newspaper that the waters have gotten more sunshine than they typically do in July and August. "This hot summer sun has been able to cook the top foot or two of ocean water and there hasn't been strong onshore flow that lead to more upwelling and mixes up the deeper cold stuff at the bottom of the ocean with the warmer water on top," Miller said. Thursday's temperature measurement surpassed the new record sea-surface temperature of 78.6 degrees Fahrenheit recorded by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on August 2, The Associated Press reported. That temperature surpassed the warmest sea-surface temperature at Scripps Pier recorded since records began in August 1616.
The first 13 days of August were the hottest on record for that period of time in San Diego, according to The Weather Channel. The average temperature for those days reached 86.5 degrees Fahrenheit, well above the average high temperature of 76 degrees Fahrenheit. It has also been humid along the southern California coast. On Wednesday, the National Weather Service (NWS) Climate Prediction Center said central California could see above average higher temperatures. "We are expecting a warming trend to start Friday into the weekend, and many areas may remain above average next week in the valley and desert," the NWS said.
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