Why the sea does not warm up in Crimea — experts know

Why does the sea not warm up? Climately happened like this. There was a cold winter. Now the bottom is coming. Water does not warm up— he said.

According to the expert, the process of raising cold water masses from the depths of the sea to its surface is quite spontaneous, «there is no year for a year, now this situation has developed, the fluctuations are going on.» But such years had already been before, as it are vice versa: it happened that in May the temperature of sea water in Crimea reached +28 degrees.

In turn, the Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Professor, Department of Geography and Geomorphology KFU named after V. I. Vernadsky Boris Vakhrushev recalled that the bathing season opens earlier in the areas of shallow water — this is the Sea of ​​Azov, the Kerch Strait, as well as on the western coast, in the Evpatoria, where there are shallow coasts. There, the water warms up to a temperature comfortable for swimming faster.

At the same time, the sea is deep on the skirt and warms up quite slowly, because of which the bathing season here begins later, but in the fall it also slowly cools down: the air is already cool, and swimming comfortably, the season is extended, he said.

The general temperature regime is associated with climatic factors, with the wind regime, which, in turn, is associated with cyclonic activity, the interlocutor added.

The ideal picture (heating of sea water — ed.) Can violate, for example, along, which bring both less heated and warmer water from other regions. There is also such a process as an upwinging (bottom — ed.), Raising deep cold waters to the shores— said Vakhrushev, noting that at a depth of about 200 meters, the water temperature all year round is +8 degrees.

According to him, along the currents in Crimea are quite constant. There is also the main Black Sea current that moves from the east, from the side of Taman, the Caucasus, along the Crimean coast, and goes towards the western part of the Black Sea, making a turn.

In the diagram of the currents of the Black Sea, two huge closed cycle with a wavelength of 350-400 km are distinguished. In honor of the oceanologist Nikolai Knipovich, who was the first to describe this scheme, she was called “Professor Knipovich’s glasses,” the scientist explained.

Earlier, the head of the Crimean Hydrometeorological Center Tatyana Lyubetskaya Reported RIA Novosti Crimea, which in the near future can be expected to warm up sea water to marks above 20 degrees. The water temperature in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea will grow by the end of the week due to the wind change.