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(MI) Traverse City Record-Eagle – Temperatures 64 feet beneath Grand Traverse Bay are warmer than those that will greet some locals on their front porch this week.

That’s because cold water descends and warm water rises, which resulted in 48-degree bay temperatures Tuesday.

“We’re amazed at how mixed it is vertically,” said Guy Meadows, director of the University of Michigan’s Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratories. More

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