How about Newport Beach City?

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Originally Posted by hh_85

Hello everyone

First of all thanks for answering.


The Newport Beach, in the winter is very cold ?, because California is an almost desert state

In the winter, the cold is like New York or Boston? (Newport Beach)

At least in the winter I do not die of cold in Newport Beach o not?

You can bathe quiet on the beaches? or The is very icy water?




Thanks

The climate/air temperature is nice year round. The water temperature is a different matter. Here is the explanation for the cold water, from Wikipedia:




The California Current is an Eastern boundary current and is also part of the North Pacific Gyre, a large swirling current that occupies the northern basin of the Pacific. The movement of northern waters southward makes the coastal waters cooler than the coastal areas of comparable latitude on the east coast of the United States. Additionally, extensive upwelling of colder sub-surface waters occurs, caused by the prevailing northwesterly winds acting through the Ekman Effect. The winds drive surface water to the right of the wind flow, that is offshore, which draws water up from below to replace it. The upwelling further cools the already cool California Current. This is the mechanism that produces California's characteristic coastal fog and the negative temperature anomaly we measure in California's coastal waters during summer (Mann and Lazier, 2006). This translates into cold coastal waters during the summer, stretching from Oregon to Baja California. Note, this does not include the coastal water surrounding San Diego. There is a warm water anomaly off San Diego (Mann and Lazier, 2006).