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Thanks in part to the strong El Niño in the equatorial Pacific, the Blob has finally broken up. Beginning in November 2015, strong winds blowing south from Alaska began to pick up, and sea surface temperatures in the northeastern Pacific began to cool.
How can you say that blob is gone? The water there is still above average, and now ridges are re-forming there. There is a very good chance that comes back yet again by summer. Someone theorized an underground volcano is feeding that water. I mean what the heck, we are supposed to be in the cold PDO, and for three years now that water has been above average. Enough already.
I'm just stating what was the title of the NASA article is saying "The Demise of the Warm Blob".
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The water there is still above average, and now ridges are re-forming there.
Above averages anomalies doesn't equal warm blob. And the anomalies have fallen dramatically.
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There is a very good chance that comes back yet again by summer. Someone theorized an underground volcano is feeding that water. I mean what the heck, we are supposed to be in the cold PDO, and for three years now that water has been above average. Enough already.
Anything could happen. It could come back this summer but with La Nina expected to form after El Nino, I doubt it. And during the long duration cold PDO of the 1960's and 1970's there were a couple of notable spikes in Pacific SST's
Cold air dam breaking. Strong south wind now. All the sites reporting temperatures in the 50s are windy, those stuck in the low 30s have no wind. Amherst rose from 35°F to 50°F in half an hour.
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And yes, I'd rather look at Temperature & Dewpoint over Temperature & Relative humidity even in the winter. Though it graphs better together with temperature.
How can you say that blob is gone? The water there is still above average, and now ridges are re-forming there. There is a very good chance that comes back yet again by summer. Someone theorized an underground volcano is feeding that water. I mean what the heck, we are supposed to be in the cold PDO, and for three years now that water has been above average. Enough already.
Much of the Pacific is a bit above average, the North Pacific doesn't stand out against the general ocean.
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