San Francisco Chronicle: California’s coastal ocean is seeing a rare trend — and what happens next could be critical
"...On the last day of winter, as California was in the midst of a historic early-season heat wave, the ocean off Southern California crossed a striking threshold.
At Scripps Pier in La Jolla, a long-running sea surface temperature record topped out at 71 degrees, the warmest March reading in the station’s history. It was not an isolated spike. The reading broke a daily record, as had the day before. And the day before that.
“The Scripps Pier sea surface temperature bucket measurements have been hitting some all-time highs for the past few months,”..."




