water temps right now?

[robint]

we are coming out in 2 weeks, diving on Great Escape for 2 days, plans to hit San Clemente and Catalina. So what are the water temps running this year?
Last year we came out mid-Aug and water temps at Santa Barbara and Catalina were 66-70 degrees! Much warmer than we had expected. We are planning to dive wet but just wondering if we should expect warm water like last year.

thanks!
robin

 

[DeliciousBrownTaste]

Pretty much the same right now last time I checked!

 

[drbill]

My dive log (on my web site) lists min temps I've experienced on each dive. My recollection is that at depths of 80-90 ft here off Avalon it was upper 50's (57-59) although I had one spike of 66 at the same depth last weekend.

 

[scottfiji]

66 at catalina this past weekend shallower than 50ft, at 3 different dive sites... thermoclines can be brutal if you go deep though at any time of the year

I would expect 66-69 in august in shallower water at catalina, santa barbara, san clemente

scott

 

[cppike79]

I was at Catalina yesterday, and every dive below about 40-50 ft the temp was in the high 50's, above 40 ft we were seeing low 60's. These were all closer to Two Harbors though.

Brian

 

[D_B]

This is useful info from the Catalina sticky thread on how to calculate what the current temps are at different depths down to 100ft .. California Diving News - How to Accurately Predict Water Temperature at Depth On Your Next Catalina Dive
using this channel buoy ... http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46025

Using this info, the current temp is 66f at 60ft, and 60f at 100ft ... This looks very close to what Scott and DrBill reports