Soooo…. I was #procrasticoding and came up with this little app to put #GulfOfMaine buoy #SST (sea surface #temperature) in context like #ClimateReanalyzer, and I really like how it turned out. https://shiny.umb.edu/shiny/users/jarrett.byrnes/gom_buoy_sst_timeseries_app/

Also a great excuse to try out rerdapp’s tabledap() that I learned from @noaacoastalsci’ #coastwatch workshop. #rstats code repo here https://github.com/jebyrnes/gom_buoy_sst_timeseries_app

Every time I look, I gasp a little more. #GulfofMaine #SeawaterTemperature #SST #ClimateChange

2022 was the warmest year on record, but it will be remembered as the coolest year in the coming years...

AP: Waters off New England had 2nd warmest year on record in 2022

by Patrick Whittle, February 16, 2023

"The average sea surface temperature was 53.66 degrees Fahrenheit, more than 3.7 degrees above the 40-year average, the scientists said. The accelerated warming is changing an ecosystem that's host to numerous important commercial fishing industries, especially for lobsters, they said.

"The report states that other data also paint a picture of the Gulf of Maine as the site of prolonged warming. In nine of the year's 12 months, the average monthly sea surface temperature was within the top three warmest among all years on record, the report said. November and December both set new records for highest monthly average sea surface temperature in the gulf, it said."

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #GulfOfMaine #NewEngland #Ocean

Read more:
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/02/16/gulf-of-maine-new-england-ocean-water-warming-temperature

"The warming of the waters off the #EastCoast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost—the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean's #FoodChain."

"The scientists found that #phytoplankton are about 65% less productive in the #GulfOfMaine, part of the #Atlantic #Ocean bounded by New England and Canada, than they were two decades ago. The Gulf of Maine has emerged as one of the fastest warming sections of the world's oceans."

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-loss-tiny-ocean-fishing-scientists.html#!