![]() If you just wrote a statistical model and said what are the chances of this level of warming, it would be 1 in 250,000 years that that would happen. And here's how he describes this ocean heat wave.īEN KIRTMAN: It's bonkers. Ben Kirtman is an atmospheric scientist at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School. Even climate scientists say they were caught off guard by such a big spike. STALETOVICH: The heat we're seeing now is really unprecedented. Water just offshore in Florida Bay near the Upper Keys hit 98 degrees last week. Water temperatures typically average about 88 degrees in the summer. Well, so usually in the summer, it can feel like climbing into a bathtub here, but right now it's more like a hot tub. What would it feel like, though, if we jumped in the ocean this week? Jenny, Florida summers - always hot and humid. Jenny Staletovich joins us from member station WLRN in Miami, where she's been following this closely. ![]() Now, the El Nino weather pattern is partly to blame, but scientists say what's really supercharging the heat is climate change. An ocean heat wave off Florida's coast is breaking records for water temperatures.
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