Sea temperature hit 24.2 degrees off Mindarie today

Took the wife and kids 35 odd kilometres west of Mindarie today to see if we could find some whales. at about 15kms out i looked at the sea temp and couldnt believe it was right on 23 degrees, kept slowly getting warmer then at  25 km out the dragonfly showed 24.2 degrees then slowly dropped back to 23 at about 35km out.  There was a large school of little southern blues that looked about 40 -50 cm long busting up on the surface out there but not a whale in sight anywhere. 2 weeks ago we were 10 km behind rotto and i never saw the temp get over 19 degrees lots of whales though. Did anybody else get high temp readings today or is my dragonfly playing up!  hopefully the reading was right  thats gotta be a good sign for the up coming mackie season! cheers dave      


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Surface

Sat, 2015-11-14 17:34

The surface layer warms up quick on days like today.
We got the temp monitor readings from the FAD's back and the water didnt get over 24 deg all last year (maxed out late march).
These were taken 5m down so avoiding the surface temp fluctuations.

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Local heating on the surface

Sat, 2015-11-14 20:02

 We saw SST's of 23-24 degrees at 50Nm out today.  The same water we drove over this morning was nearly a degree hotter late this afternoon.

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Sat, 2015-11-14 20:05

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Saw a sunfish today

Sat, 2015-11-14 20:15

saw a sunfish today presume they like hot water? Haha 

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 23.8 headin out of Freo to

Sun, 2015-11-15 14:18

 23.8 headin out of Freo to the shipping channel

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Went diving Saturday

Sun, 2015-11-15 20:20

And the water temp in the top 10 meters was a lot warmer. Didn't take temps though but your readings would be about right. A month ago the water was freezing! 

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 22 on the surface at

Sun, 2015-11-15 20:54

 22 on the surface at Stragglers on Saturday

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 yesterday was 23-25 between

Sun, 2015-11-15 21:27

 yesterday was 23-25 between hillarys and rotto