@nedhorning , @donblair did you see this?

I'm not sure what would cause that red spot. There isn't a legend or an image date so I'm assuming that the red spot is cooler than the surrounding water. It's possible that there is an underwater spring but that's just a guess. It looks like an island which make runoff and a drain pipe cause less likely.

Yes I should have documented my work a bit better. I basically followed the tutorial and then kept moving the zoom around and playing with the settings. The image was the latest from the Landsat set. Here's my hypothesis...the water is much shallower in that area, yet still submerge and there is a channel that has been created in the soft sand. Water passing through that channel then cools (or heats up...not sure which) faster than the surrounding water? I'm not sure at all but it was a very curious finding given the drastic difference in color from everything else in the image!

It seems like the red is cooler, since the beaches and shallow water of Jamaica Bay are that lighter yellow color, and they should be warm spots.

That means that the red spot is a cool spot. It is a channel there by the jetty, so it is a little trough of deeper water. The tide seems to be running out by the plume reaching out into the Atlantic. Perhaps that trough contains some cooler water that is being stirred up by the outgoing tide?

Jay

It would be nice to have a scale. At the Open Hours last week they did say it was hard to get absolute temperatures without some sort of calibration, but the colors should represent relative temperature differences. I wonder what that relative temperature difference is here?

Jay