The Pacific Ocean is running a fever. Why that's an ominous sign.

[Zorro]

A marine heat wave covering an area eight times the size of the United States could soon fuel serious storms and extreme heat.

Across the Pacific Ocean, there’s a massive marine heat wave covering an area more than eight times the size of the contiguous United States — and it could have profound ripple effects for weather events around the globe in the coming weeks and months.

This area makes up about 13.5 percent of Earth’s total surface, stretching from the Philippines to Peru — where people are flocking to the beach during the Southern Hemisphere winter — and northward to the coasts of Hawaii and California.

Marine heat waves are a strong, sprawling and sustained warming in the ocean, sometimes near the surface and other times extending deep. They are ranked on a scale from 1 (moderate) to 5 (beyond extreme), reflecting both their intensity and duration.

The enormous Pacific marine heat wave formed as two separate marine heat waves combined: one in the North Pacific and another associated with a developing super El Niño along the equator.

While warmer seas might sound nice to some beachgoers, what happens in the ocean doesn’t stay in the ocean — and this marine heat wave is an ominous sign for weather patterns to come.

https://wapo.st/4p4sGb7

Just another extreme weather "hoax" -- just ask DJT and his Republican Brainiacs...

[Lovie777]

1. Thanks for the heads up...........................

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Costa Rica has been experiencing some effects of that. We had almost constant downpours from Tuesday untill

yesterday, with high wind gusts and thunder. I lost 2 banana trees and recorded 2 inches of rain in 24 hours. All coming in from the Pacicic side.