7/19/2005

LA weather report: seventy miles away the temps near 130 degrees. Here, it is 75 to 80, the beach is 70 to 72, and the nights are in the low 60s. Usually we get baked out of our skulls when desert temps soar, but this year we are cool. For now. Global warming? The Atlantic Ocean temps are very high, in the 80s. The Pacific temps are very cool, so cool that there were zero Pacific hurricanes hitting the Pacific Americas this winter and spring. The SoCal water temps are 65, which is extremely cold for this time of year; the local sports fishing is terrific further north because the really good fighting fish (albacore, THE tackle busting fish of choice here) like the water warm. Normal ocean temps about now are usually 71 to 73. Sample reports from HERE ARE for boats going a hundred miles out and down:

Pt. Loma Sportfishing, H&M Landing, Fisherman's Landing: 39 anglers, two full-day boats: 150 albacore;
However the near to shore fishing sucks all the way down to Cabo due to the cold water. There ain't no marlin, sails, or even big bonita. You have to take a two day boat to catch anything.