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I haven't been out on the boat in a couple weeks, but there was a noticeable drop in water temp from Sunday evening to dusk on Tuesday (South Shore, MA). I was relatively comfortable on Sunday in shorts & water shoes doing some light pencil popping, but on Tuesday it was not comfortable at all doing some wet wading for a bit. legs and feet downright hurt! Tempts did seem to normalize to the touch last night, but I was smart enough to wear waders last night. The upwelling of cold ocean water on the east facing shoreline after a sustained W/SW blow is a real thing. Usually the fishing is pretty good once temps begin to normalize.
I think it was 2 years ago around July 4th when we had a full on heat wave- 3 days of 97-100 degree air temps with a honking W/SW wind. Before the heat wave water temps were hovering around 71 degrees...3 days of nearly triple digit air temps with big winds and temps had plummeted to 49 degrees
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