While the extended 15-day forecast calls for below-normal temperatures on Long Beach Island, the declining mercury isn’t conducive to forming dangerous ice that could, in turn, create hazardous navigation conditions in the Intracoastal Waterway. Still, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Aids to Navigation team, based in Cape May, will keep an eye on the weather and its potential impact on channel markers.
Salt water freezes at 29 degrees. For dangerous ice conditions to exist in the ICW, the temperature needs to stay at 29…
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