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Lower Eastern Shore - Pocomoke Sound (EE3.3)

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Location:
Pocomoke Sound near the Virginia State Line

Coordinates (NAD83):
Latitude: 37.9418º
Longitude: -75.7663º

Description:
This station is a mesohaline (salinity 5 to 18 ppt), tidally influenced site in an embayment approximately 13 feet deep.

Current Parameter: Water Temperature

Choose Other Parameters:
Dissolved
Oxygen
Water
Temperature
Salinity pH Water
Clarity


The yellow shaded area represents the range of monthly mean values that have occurred from 1986 to 2012. The blue line shows the monthly mean values for each month over that same time period. The red line shows what the current years conditions are and how they compare to the range and the average values we've seen.

To convert temperature to Fahrenheit, use the conversion tool below.

2013 Surface Water Temperature
Lower Eastern Shore / Pocomoke Sound (EE3.3)

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Range 1986 to 2012 2013 Mean

Surface Water Temperature (°F)
Lower Eastern Shore / Pocomoke Sound (EE3.3)
Month Minimum Mean Maximum 2012 2013
January 35.78 40.41 45.86   Not Sampled
February 36.68 40.28 44.78   41.36
March 41.72 47.08 52.34 52.16 42.26
April 48.38 56.89 63.50 63.32 63.32
May 59.72 65.52 70.88 70.34 64.22
June 72.23 77.19 85.10 73.22  
July 78.08 82.02 86.18 82.40  
August 75.38 80.11 84.02 78.98  
September 67.46 73.95 78.98 73.94  
October 52.88 62.10 68.00 62.24  
November 44.24 52.64 58.28 Not Sampled  
December 36.14 43.50 50.54 47.48  

NOTE: Results displayed are provisional and have not undergone full Quality Assurance procedures. Although Maryland DNR believes the data presented here are correct, we cannot guarantee their accuracy at this time.

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Choose Other Parameters:
Dissolved
Oxygen
Water
Temperature
Salinity pH Water
Clarity

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Additional water quality data, including nutrient data, is currently available through the Chesapeake Bay Program Data Hub.

Contact Mark Trice of MD DNR's Resource Assessment Service at (410) 260-8630 or by email at mtrice@dnr.state.md.us.


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