5/29/15 big Red Tide in Mtry Bay -website for info

  I was browsing the KSBW (Salinas -Central Coast TV) website for the weather and saw a story about a big red tide happening in Monterey Bay that poses a threat to, among other species, anchovies an sea lions.   So I Googled "Red Tide Monterey Bay" and got this interesting site:
http://oceandatacenter.ucsc.edu/PhytoBlog/
  If you cruise around on the site you can find the current readings amount of the algae than creates red tide, and a lot of other interesting data taken at both Monterey and at the SC Wharf.   Indeed, the red tide algae is "abundant".
   Some of the legends that you can use to make sense of what you are seeing on the above page are in some of the links on this page:
http://oceandatacenter.ucsc.edu/
    One of the measurements they take is visibility.  Another is the color of the water as measured against a palate of standard colors, and they show you the palate. Also temps, current winds, etc.
    I'll check this site a few times to see how the measurements change and how they compare with I see on the water.