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As summer approaches and water temperatures warm, many area residents and visitors take to the water. While some relax in the water in a quick cooling dip, others test themselves in one of the area’s many competitive open-water swimming events or triathlons slated for the summer months. 

The Susquehanna, Upper Potomac, and Patapsco buoys--which had been pulled from the water in early winter--were all redeployed the week of March 17.

A frigid Arctic air mass has brought dangerous, and in some cases life-threatening, low temperatures and wind chills to much of the central and eastern United States. Wind chill advisories and warnings were in effect on January 7 for much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, noting possible wind chill values as low as -50F in some locations.

Every year in the late fall, migratory striped bass (Morone saxatilis)—rockfish—make a trip into the Chesapeake Bay on the way from their summer home off New England to their winter grounds off the capes of Virginia and North Carolina.