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Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick have ocean beaches where the summer temperatures are generally in the 20-25C range. Some of these beaches have warmer water than any ocean beach on the NE US coast north of Virginia.
And water temperatures at lake beaches in Ontario and Quebec can easily reach 25C or higher in the summer.
That seems unusually high. How does that happen if (from looking at stats), the average summer temperature isn't even that high in those areas?
An average sea temp of 18C sounds far too high for Vancouver, and indeed, the link Natansci posted shows an average sea temp of 14C in July for Vancouver. That's the same as July in San Francisco, but San Francisco's warm season is in autumn rather than summer.
The link I provides states Vancouver's is on average 17C in July and 18C in August. The other links shows the highest temp on average that the ocean off S.F. gets is 16C in September. My original post incorrectly stated it was October.
The part that I though people, who don't think of Canada and beaches, is that Vancouver, a city surround by swimming beaches actually has a time of year where the water is warmer by 2 degrees than anything S.F. usually gets.
I'm not trying to convince people the water around Vancouver is tropical, just that people do use and swim in our ocean without having to navigate ice flows.
That seems unusually high. How does that happen if (from looking at stats), the average summer temperature isn't even that high in those areas?
In regards to Northumberland Straight…from wiki.
"The strait's shallow depths lend to warm water temperatures in summer months, with some areas reaching 25°C, or 77°F. Consequently the strait is reportedly home to the warmest ocean water temperatures in Canada, and some of the warmest ocean water temperatures on the Atlantic coast north of Virginia."
Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick have ocean beaches where the summer temperatures are generally in the 20-25C range. Some of these beaches have warmer water than any ocean beach on the NE US coast north of Virginia.
And water temperatures at lake beaches in Ontario and Quebec can easily reach 25C or higher in the summer.
According to seatemperature.org even the sea temps in Boston are warmer than those in either Prince Edward Island or New Brunswick. That some of these Maritime beach's have warmer water than any ocean beach on the NE US coast north of Virginia is just another one of those unexplainable things which makes Canada just so darn awesome!
That seems unusually high. How does that happen if (from looking at stats), the average summer temperature isn't even that high in those areas?
I am not exaggerating, though I cannot explain it scientifically. These are the actual average temperatures. Note that average daytime temperatures are generally above 25C in the area I mentioned, but at night it generally drops to 15-18C, so the overall average is generally just below 20C in most places. But the water temperature as I said is 20-25C most everywhere that is inhabited in this part of the world for lakes, but not in all places on the ocean. For example, the ocean waters around most of Nova Scotia tend to be quite cold.
The link I provides states Vancouver's is on average 17C in July and 18C in August. The other links shows the highest temp on average that the ocean off S.F. gets is 16C in September. My original post incorrectly stated it was October.
The part that I though people, who don't think of Canada and beaches, is that Vancouver, a city surround by swimming beaches actually has a time of year where the water is warmer by 2 degrees than anything S.F. usually gets.
I'm not trying to convince people the water around Vancouver is tropical, just that people do use and swim in our ocean without having to navigate ice flows.
I think you are misreading the link you posted. At the top, it states, "August is the hottest month in Vancouver with an average temperature of 18°C (64.4°F)."
Then it goes on to say, "The best month to swim in the sea is in July when the average sea temperature is 14°C (57.2°F)."
According to your own sources the average ocean temp in Vancouver is 14C which is colder than San Francisco's 16C. Keep up the pimping tho - most people here won't bother to check the facts.
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Originally Posted by Natnasci
You've seem to have missed " In summer " even though you highlighted it. My point IS that people who don't think of Canada and beaches, like the person I was responding to, would be surprised that the ocean temperatures IN SUMMER are ON AVERAGE are warmer in Vancouver than a city in California, a place where people assume that the warmer would be MUCH warmer.
As another poster pointed out the ocean temps can be even warmer on Canada's east coast.
Your pimping comment is way off base.
I think you are misreading the link you posted. At the top, it states, "August is the hottest month in Vancouver with an average temperature of 18°C (64.4°F)."
Then it goes on to say, "The best month to swim in the sea is in July when the average sea temperature is 14°C (57.2°F)."
I think you got the two confused?
LOL…is my face red? Yes I did…however the point is still the same, that Canada has swimmable beaches and the the temperature in summer has a lot less variance from a Californian beach, than most people, especially the person I was originally responding to.
"The strait's shallow depths lend to warm water temperatures in summer months, with some areas reaching 25°C, or 77°F. Consequently the strait is reportedly home to the warmest ocean water temperatures in Canada, and some of the warmest ocean water temperatures on the Atlantic coast north of Virginia."
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Originally Posted by kevike
According to seatemperature.org even the sea temps in Boston are warmer than those in either Prince Edward Island or New Brunswick. That some of these Maritime beach's have warmer water than any ocean beach on the NE US coast north of Virginia is just another one of those unexplainable things which makes Canada just so darn awesome!
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Originally Posted by Acajack
I am not exaggerating, though I cannot explain it scientifically. These are the actual average temperatures. Note that average daytime temperatures are generally above 25C in the area I mentioned, but at night it generally drops to 15-18C, so the overall average is generally just below 20C in most places. But the water temperature as I said is 20-25C most everywhere that is inhabited in this part of the world for lakes, but not in all places on the ocean. For example, the ocean waters around most of Nova Scotia tend to be quite cold.
I'm just finding it hard to image how water can be hotter than the average air temperature. The water gets heat added up by day and lost at night, so the water should at most be as hot as the average or a little cooler.
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