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GOOD MORNING LOWCOUNTRY.
Welcome to Memorial Day Weekend... where water plays a big part in the Lowcountry. The S.C. Natural Resources Department urges you to be safe (more about that shortly)... and GMLc urges you to check the water temperature before you jump into the ocean.
COME ON IN. THE WATER'S FINE: Is it really? Don't know. Being a Lowcountry native, GMLc waits until the ocean temp is somewhere between warm bath and hot tub before we wet a toe.
But an infrared satellite imaging system on a Web site that was developed by Rutgers University (in New Jersey) tells you the accurate ocean temperature in your little cove of the coast within a half-degree Fahrenheit.
The data is also on TV in some areas (New York, Philly, Raleigh-Durham). The graphics and satellite imagery from the Rutgers U. Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (RU COOL) Web site are way cool. Go to http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/data.html and click on "Satellite Images of Ocean Temperature." We did, and found the entire S.C. coast in various shades of brrrrr.
Folly Beach water temps were between 18 and 19 degrees Celsius... that would be between 64.4 and 66.2 degrees Fahrenheit. Let's just call it 65 degrees. (The Web site follysurfcam.com also gives you water temperature. It has Charleston Harbor at 72 degrees F. Surfers don't care... they wear wetsuits.)...
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