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Another marine heatwave in the Tasman Sea

Another marine heatwave in the Tasman Sea

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 NZ’s seas are running hot: Is a marine heatwave coming? NZ Herald, 1 November, 2020 New Zealand’s coastal waters are running hotter now than they were at this point three years ago – when the country was enveloped by a freak marine heatwave that fuelled our warmest summer. Meteorologists have been keeping a close watch on warming sea surface temperatures (SSTs) – some pockets have been reaching 3C above average – as an arriving La Nina climate system begins to influence our…

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Winter in New Zealand – the hot blob in the Tasman has dissipated

Winter in New Zealand – the hot blob in the Tasman has dissipated

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This is what I was reporting last year, along with super-warm conditions. We are having something more akin to a winter – with colder conditions but very little sun. The meteorologists and people on social media will interpret this as “part of a cycle” and see it in terms of localism.  However the Bot Blob has more or less dissipated compared with elsewhere on the Globe. Look at the Arctic!

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