Late last week, Galveston's typically-brown water turned bright blue. A meteorologist explains why it happens and when the region could possibly see it again.
"You want the winds to be pretty light," he said."You don't want to have a ton of rain coming down the rivers, and you don't want to have a really active Gulf with a lot of wind and a lot of wave acts, and that is definitely much more of a summer thing than spring, fall, and winter."
A kitesurfer enjoys a nice summer day at Gulf of Mexico on Friday, June 1, 2018, in Galveston. The blue water off Galveston over the past weekend has been driving a surge in tourism to Galveston.When Galveston's waters return to their usual brown, you don't need to be alarmed, Prochazka explained. The color doesn't necessarilyThe brown comes from the large amount of silt in Galveston's water. When dry, silt has a texture similar to flour, but becomes smooth like mud when wet.
When the region has lots of swells coming out of the Gulf, they wash up on the beach and mix with the water causing its brown discoloration. Large rain events also cause silt to come down the rivers that empty into the Gulf which"can very quickly turn your water from blue to brown," Prochazka said.
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