....hold onto that door knob :B
Dateline December 12th:
"SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — The ongoing rescue of comatose sea turtles stunned by a cold snap in South Texas illustrates the need for volunteers to become Master Naturalists, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service marine expert."
“This latest cold front came in so quickly and dropped water temperatures so rapidly in the shallow Laguna Madre that sea turtles didn’t have time to seek deeper, warmer water,” he said. “They go into a comatose state and can drown unless they’re rescued..."
I REALLY hope that this trend won't continue, but have any of you mariners looked at the sea surface temperatures (SST and multi-model ensemble predicted for January, February & March) in the north and western regions of the Gulf of Mexico recently?
There will be climatological papers written about this brutal cold November in south Texas and the Gulf of Mexico (and, what I hope won't be the coldest south Texas and southern Arizona/California weather perhaps ever to be recorded this winter).
