large browish jelly

Description and Comments

single large brown jelly swimming off Anacapa island. Very few jellies seen. A couple of beaten up comb jellies and this chewed up brown jelly.

Author

plyles

Type of organism

Jellyfish

Quantity

Sat, 07/12/2014 - 18:00

Latitude

33.99

Longitude

-119.37

Comments

Ocean is extremely warm here

plyles Tue, 07/15/2014 - 13:09

Ocean is extremely warm here now. Probably in the low 70s. It's very unusual.

Thanks! Probably the "Black

jellywatch Tue, 07/15/2014 - 13:21

Thanks! Probably the "Black Chrysaora" that shows up off San Diego and Orange County? http://jellywatch.org/node/3610 http://jellywatch.org/node/2772

Thanks. Haven't seen one before. What does jelly watch have to say about the abnormally warm ocean temperatures we are seeing now. I've dived the Northern Channel Islands for years, and have never seen this.

Still mixed opinions on the

jellywatch Thu, 07/17/2014 - 15:16

Still mixed opinions on the severity, but many indications of an El Nino event. SST anomaly certainly does show relatively warm water off California.. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/#tabs=Sea-surface

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