Southern California Just Recorded Its Hottest Ocean Surface Temperature Ever
(World News Science)

Researchers in Southern California have recorded the highest sea surface temperature in the area since records began more than a century ago. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has been taking temperature and salinity measurements at the ocean´s surface since 1916. On Thursday, scientists measured the surface water at 27.2°C (81.3°F) by the Torrey Pines buoy (11.7 kilometers/7.3 miles offshore) and the...