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What happens to the beach in the winter?

The seasons take their turn. Winter waves scour and sweep the beach, pulling fine sand deeper into the cove, leaving behind coarser grains, often forming a shelf or scarp or series of ridges across the beach.



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The seasons take their turn. Winter waves scour and sweep the beach, pulling fine sand deeper into the cove, leaving behind coarser grains, often forming a shelf or scarp or series of ridges across the beach.

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The winter months are low pressure. All the crowds that you fight during the summer, the expensive parking and lack of spaces, the burden of trying to have that perfect beach body… they just aren't issues during the winter.

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Water takes a lot more energy to heat up and cool down than land does. Because of this, our summers are always cooler right at the beaches, and our winters are typically warmer.

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It's courtesy of the sea breeze effect. National Weather Service meteorologist Walter Drag explains that it occurs due to the difference between the warm air over land and cool air hovering over the ocean (currently around 50 degrees).

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You're probably wearing less clothes, and clothes provide shade, so you feel more of the sun on your skin. Sand is usually lightly-colored and thus reflective, which bounces more light (and thus heat) back at you.

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