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Anyone got a site to look up what the inshore/flats water temp is now? The FSU one is done once a say in the morning. I like to know what it is now or later in the day for our area. I wish the keaton tower had water temp.

I will start posting it in my reports, between myself and my brother we fish 3-4 times a week now the time has changed, stay tuned.

I've never seen it change more than a couple of degrees throughout the day - I normally drive through deep water and make nearly straight north-south shots to my creek-holes. creeks get a little warmer at high tide, but I've never seen the general flats temps change more than maybe 1-2 degrees in a day even when there's 30-40 outside air temp change. Water is just more resistant cause of the currents and whatnot. Even the couple degrees I've seen change in a day are prolly just surface temp - I ain't probing deep down. If the water temp changes more than a couple degrees, it will cause a pressure front over it, and that will cause some kind of 'weather' mostly storms. So if it ain't stormed, you can be pretty sure the water temp hasn't changed much in a day.

Last late March when we fishing the flats out of Lanark the temp swing from morning to afternoon was around 6 degrees. It went from 66 in the morning to 72 in the afternoon. Here is my report: http://www.bigbendfishing.net/phpBB3/vi ... =4&t=13131" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Most days thats the swing I see too LR. I ve also noticed that the when the pressure is consistently 1010 or higher, the faster the water heats up. Which would make a ton of sense since that is usually when you can expect metter weather patterns, kind of like Mook said. Guess I agree with both of you.

Most of the time I've seen that it is way lower than the marine lab temp.

Go here and click on one of the ocean bouys that's not red:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/Florida.shtml

Not all of them have temps, but it looks like SGOF1 (Tyndall AFB tower) and a couple others have temps updated every hour or so and some more often.

Hit-n-Miss wrote:Most of the time I've seen that it is way lower than the marine lab temp.

Yeah, I see that too. I think it is because they measure the temp at their lab, its real shallow and muddy and thus warms up a lot faster.