SS – That strange area of water in the Pacific Ocean off New Zealand is 6°C hotter than normal, possibly due to a lack of wind in the region. Similar to the blob in 2014 that devastated marine life and coral along the Pacific Northwest, there is a similar unknown phenomenon off New Zealand producing a spike in water temperature of up to 6°C above average across a massive patch of ocean east of New Zealand.
The deep red blob appears as a patch spanning at least a million square kilometers – nearly 1.5x the size of Texas, or 4x the size of New Zealand – in the Pacific Ocean. According to leading scientists, the scale of the temperature spike near the sparsely populated Chatham Islands archipelago was remarkable and had been building for weeks. It’s the biggest patch of above-average warming on the planet right now with normal temperatures reaching about 15°C. But at the moment they are about 20°C. READ MORE
