Water temps have taken advantage of the offshore and land/sea breezes. In one day, the suds went from the goosebumpish 50s into the ain’t-bad 70s. By week’s end, solar heating could kick the surf temps into the upper 70s.

Yes, there is the written-about matter of our trading air-conditioning south winds for wicked hot westerlies (see last week’s column), but we’ve been able to rate both scenarios over the past couple weeks. Now you can better decide.