This is a preliminary analysis of sea surface temperature records from the North Pacific from July 1976 through June 1977. The observations were made by thermistors mounted on drifting buoys and were reported through a telemetry link in Nimbus 6. Typical time series of sea surface temperatures from the buoys show viriability on scales ranging from a few hours to the seasonal march. Most conspicuous in the observations are a diurnal cycle associated with summer months, a 4- to 10-day cycle associated with the passage of fronts during the fall and winter, and the seasonal marches of temperature. For the latter case a widspread event in responsible for most of the winter cooling. The warming cycle resembles more the classic sinusoidal march of temperatures. The large thermal anomaly present in the North Pacific during this period is clearly revealed.