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Apparently, there have been an awful lot of cloudless days down there, allowing the sunlight to really heat up the water and produce unseasonably warm SSTs. I’ve gotten a couple of e-mails about this, one from Eric of Erictek, a Purdue student, who compared the maps on this website and concluded that the water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico about three weeks ahead of where they were last year.