Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

 A Water Temp Below 47° - Some Kind of a Record

Niel and Jim at the first crossbars on the Poly Pier

At the second crossbars on the Poly Pier.

While Jim and I were getting ready to get in he mentioned that he had been watching the water temperatures at the NOAA buoys drop and he expected the water to be very cold this morning.

Well, OK. It was still a beautiful fall morning, 40° and calm with glassy water and 2 to 3 foot waves.

I proposed a route that would give us opportunities to adjust our route if we were getting cold.

I was OK getting in until my face hit the water. Yikes!  Swimming down the buoy line I tried to put a number to the water's temperature and only came up with 'probably never this cold before'.

We kept moving to the first, and second crossbars and then to the end of the Avila Pier. There was an additional one degree drop in the water temperature mid way to the end of the Avila Pier, so 47°-?. Jim went in from the end of the pier and for some reason I continued on to the 4th buoy.  I was feeling the cold everywhere when I got out. With my new booties my feet have never been cold but they were today, so it had to be below 48.

My new little eight dollar thermometer has been a bust, it is not readable in the water, even if I remove my goggles so I'm back to the Tom's Toes method until I find a better instrument. 

Jim and I will swim at 7:30 on Thursday and at 7 with Jodi and Tom Israel on Saturday.

niel