This summer I have been finding and sharing webpages that provide forecasts on conditions at the beach: water temperature, rip current risk, water cleanliness, etc. The final piece of the beach forecasting puzzle may have just been developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...it predicts the chance of jellyfish.
No, the government isn't actually counting jellyfish. But with it's Chesapeake Bay Interactive Buoy System, NOAA forecasters can monitor water factors like temperature and salinity to find conditions that jellyfish like and predict where jellyfish will be most numerous. As of Thursday, July 5th, the northern Chesapeake Bay is looking at a bumper crop of Atlantic Sea Nettles, the most populous of the bay's jellyfish.
On the web:
http://www.chesapeakebay.noaa.gov/forecasting-sea-nettles
http://buoybay.noaa.gov/news-listings/109.html
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