Why some scientists are worried about a surprisingly cold ‘blob’ in the N. Atlantic

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Why some scientists are worried about a surprisingly cold ‘blob’ in the N. Atlantic

Why some scientists are worried about a surprisingly cold ‘blob’ in the North Atlantic Ocean - The Washington Post

Why some scientists are worried about a surprisingly cold ‘blob’ in the North Atlantic Ocean

By Chris Mooney September 24 at 1:38 PM

It is, for our home planet, an extremely warm year.

Indeed, last week we learned from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that the first eight months of 2015 were the hottest such stretch yet recorded for the globe’s surface land and oceans, based on temperature records going to 1880. It’s just the latest evidence that we are, indeed, on course for a record-breaking warm year in 2015.

Yet, if you look closely, there’s one part of the planet that is bucking the trend. In the North Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland and Iceland, the ocean surface has seen very cold temperatures for the past eight months. What’s up with that?

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It is no wonder really.
If you have a record heat you also have strong melt of continental ice. The water created with this process then ends in ocean and reduces its temperature.


The so called blob is near Greenland that is all covered with ice and map shows that there is another similar element right next to the Antartic penninsula, where you basicallly have the same situation. Ice on land surrounded by ocean.