I've put together a spreadsheet of the SST data I've been collecting and trended it over the month of November (Well starting on the 11th Actually).

By the look of it the 17 - 17.5 Deg Avg Water temp looks to be sitting quite comfortably against the east coast at the moment with the exception of the Western Bay of Plenty.

The Current stream down the east of the country has pushed 18 degree water to within 72 Miles of both Northland and the East Cape with a fairly stable front of 18 degree water in an arc from East cape to north cape avraging 90miles offshore.

The west coast by comparison is looking quite cool Ranging between the early 16's to 17's up the entire coast from Taranaki North.

Does this sort of data corelate with what people are seeing on there boats ??

I've retrived the data from the same site that AODC get the data for their SST maps, so I'm quite interested to see whether it is

A very Accurate

B of any real use to anyone

Cheers

Kylie 

Sounds Like it corrosponds with the data I've picked up off the site.  The surface temps I'm looking at are a snapshot taken at Midnight, so the water outside of the aldermans looks to be about 17 deg at that time

Take into account the sun on the water etc and the charts seem to be about right