The ‘blob’ is back. This time it stretches across the entire North Pacific

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/climate/pacific-ocean-blob-hot-water-global-warming?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit

by cnn

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  1. A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching about 5,000 miles from the water around Japan to the West Coast of the United States. The abnormally warm “blob” of ocean water, which is getting a significant boost from human-caused global warming, is affecting the weather on land and could have ripple effects on marine life.

    The hot ocean waters around Japan contributed to that country’s hottest summer on record, which featured its all-time national maximum temperature record, set on August 5, at 107.2 degrees Fahrenheit.

    On the other side of the Pacific, the ocean heat is also yielding higher humidity in northern California at the start of meteorological fall, and if it persists, could enhance rain and mountain snowfall from wintertime atmospheric rivers.

    Read more: [https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/climate/pacific-ocean-blob-hot-water-global-warming?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit](https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/climate/pacific-ocean-blob-hot-water-global-warming?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit)

  2. This has resulted in much warmer and more humid conditions on the West coast no doubt about it.

  3. This means Seattle will have a bad ski season.  Again.  Everybody who loves the snow knows climate change is well under way. 

  4. Jesus, it looks like a mirrored El Niño. With the East/West and North/South configuration in the Pacific reversed.

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