OCEAN CITY, N.J. - For a change, the ocean water is warm down at the Jersey shore.It's so warm, it set a record in Atlantic City, where the water temperature soared to the mid-80s on Thursday and early Friday.
This weekend, your Weather Authority says to plan for ocean water in the upper 70s.The water is much, much warmer for a few reasons.South and east of our shores, the Atlantic Ocean has been much warmer than average for a while.Usually, 80-degree ocean water stops around the Outer Banks in North Carolina.
But lately, it has extended much farther north.But our shores have not been able to tap into that warm water because of our air flow.
Winds have been coming down from the north or blowing along the coastline a lot this summer. That airflow pushes the top layer of sun-warmed ocean water away from our beaches.