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Shallow waters off south Florida topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8C) for several hours on Monday, potentially setting a new world record with temperatures more commonly associated with hot tubs.<\/p>\n

The readings were taken from a single buoy in Manatee Bay, about 38 miles (60 kilometers) southwest of Miami, at a depth of five feet (1.5 meters).<\/p>\n

A peak temperature of 101.1F was recorded at 6:00 pm, but it remained above 100F for about four hours, official data showed.<\/p>\n

Jeff Masters, a meteorologist and former government scientist, tweeted that while there was no official world record for sea surface temperature, a 2020 scientific paper found that the previous high might have been 99.7F recorded in Kuwait Bay.<\/p>\n

But, added Masters, since the new measurement was taken near land, “contamination of the measurement by land effects and organic matter in the water might…invalidate the record.”<\/p>\n

“Unless there is photographic proof that debris was not present, it would be difficult to (verify) the 101.F record as valid,” he added on social media.<\/p>\n

The sauna-like conditions might be enjoyable for some humans, but sustained extreme heat is devastating for coral reef ecosystems and the species that depend on them.<\/p>\n

It comes days after the nonprofit Coral Reef Foundation (CRF) said that one reef in south Florida it had been working to restore had been devastated.<\/p>\n

“CRF teams visited Sombrero Reef, a restoration site we’ve been working at for over a decade. What we found was unimaginable — 100% coral mortality,” said the organization’s Phanor Montoya-Maya, in a statement.<\/p>\n

About 25 percent of all marine species are found in, on, or around coral reefs, rivaling the biodiversity of tropical rainforests, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n

Across the globe, the Mediterranean Sea reached its highest temperature on record Monday during an exceptional heatwave, Spanish researchers told AFP on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“We attained a new record… in the daily median sea surface temperature of the Mediterranean: 28.71C (83.68F),” Spain’s Institute of Marine Sciences said.<\/p>\n

The previous record was on August 23, 2003, with a median value of 82.86F.<\/p>\n

July 2023 is on track to be the hottest absolute month on record, as well as the hottest in potentially thousands of years, according to NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt.<\/p>\n

“We are seeing unprecedented changes all over the world,” he said last week, with records being broken on land and in the sea, and the effects mostly attributable to human-caused climate change.<\/p>\n

(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n

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