MPR had a piece running about the lake all day today. 

Lake Superior reaches record temp

Haven't been down there yet this year but may now.

Absolutely! Haven't lived here very long but went swimming yesterday at Park Point, the first beach.  And it was abnormally warm. Not complaining but it didn't feel like an iceberg was going to float by at any minute and it was nice:)

I've been swimming a lot over near Cornucopia this year, it's like friggen bathwater over there.

It was like bathwater on Park Point this morning at 6am too.  I had some time to kill before work so I grabbed my camera and hit the beach.  Now if only there was a way to get rid of the gulls, they kept ruining my shots!

I was on Madeline Island a couple of weeks ago and the water was impossibly divine. I went for run on the beach and encountered a family of geese tending their young so I took a 90 degree turn rather than messing with them and  swam and floated among the sailboats for a half hour or so. It was amazing. I was surprised to lift my head and see pines where it felt like there should be palms.

Water's 68+ degrees (on the surface). Over 20 degrees higher than it should be!

Someone told me the DNT had an article about Lake Superior temps today.  Wonder if they mine for stories on PDD?

The DNT had a story for the same reason MPR did this week - because the lake reached its record temperature, and researchers released the information. 

And the DNT had a story about the warming trend a month ago, so if you did read the paper or the DNT web site you would have known about the unprecedented warmth weeks before.

Another park point afternoon on Saturday.  The breeze was on-shore, so I was expecting a rather frigid greeting for my more sensitive parts.  What I found instead was very pleasant, calm waters, not too many people, but all very happy, sandbars 100 ft out that made the water ankle deep, and fun, fun fun!  First time I saw wildlife other than fowl.  Some foreign guy caught an injured painted turtle swimming not far from shore.  Speaking of the beach, anyone find a sweet canvas navy and white beach umbrella two years ago?  If so, it's ours and we'd like it back.  no questions asked.