It’s hard to say with certainty that the trickle-down effects of once-Hurricane Debby knocked some seasonal sense into the Island’s ocean water temps, but there has been a welcome influx of warmer seas. The surf isn’t into the mid-70s, as we often feel by mid-August, but it’s plenty mild enough to allow frolicking in the suds.

Next likely cyclonic impacts will come via long-period swells from a developing system named Ernesto.