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Subject: Hot Spot
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shadow27 29.12.19 - 05:17am
A warm patch of ocean the size of Texas was spotted off the coast of New Zealand. It's steadily moving across the Pacific.. updates will be forthcoming. * +

shadow27 29.12.19 - 05:18am
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3mel 29.12.19 - 08:23am
OK who's pissed themselves again ? * +

tranie 29.12.19 - 10:30am
Is there a under water volcano round there ? Why is there a hot spot ? What's causing it ? * +

recurve16 29.12.19 - 10:39am
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recurve16 29.12.19 - 10:40am
It's the summer marine heatwave attracting huge attention - a massive blob of hot water off the eastern coast of New Zealand.

Right now the southern reaches of the Pacific Ocean is one of the warmest sea spots on the planet with temperatures of up to 20C appearing as a bright red blob on satellite images.

Professor James Renwick, a weather and climate researcher at Victoria University, has a simple explanation for the phenomenon: It's just a patch of water that's had a lot of sunny skies and not much wind.

Renwick said the waters out to the east of the country had been experiencing quite high pressures, sunny skies, light winds, so the surface of the ocean would warm up quite quickly.

But if the winds are strong then it gets all stirred up.

If it's not being stirred enough, the warming from the sun and so on will just be absorbed at the surface of the ocean where you get this quite thin layer of very warm water, so what I'm wondering is, how deep is this very warm blob? * +

shadow27 29.12.19 - 12:20pm
That's the most important question, also... Will this trigger other anomalies?? * +

shadow27 29.12.19 - 12:21pm
I'm not entirely sure I agree with Renwick. If this event is so unremarkable and normal, why is it even in the news?? * +

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