February 7, 2006.
0630z gmt.
Pacific Global Satellite.
Consistently 360 degrees around the globe, the 'attitude' of 36 North Latitude is the southern 'edge' of the Arctic Vortex. Currently, there is operating within those dynamics some vortexes. There is one over the North Pacific near Alaska.
The southern Pacific is seeing the 'heat dump' off the equator as happened the same time last year. Actually, this year the intensity is greater into Antarctica. I would expect that as the 'coolness' of the arctic areas become equal in temperature to that of the equator. Ocean temperatures have risen a lot. A degree or two of ocean water rising is a huge amount of kilocalories of heat when one considers the surface area of the water involved. Boiling an ocean takes a long time compared to your stove top.
The thing about ocean temperature is the subtle ocean creatures that live in that surface water which will die when their one cell bodies can no longer find benevolent temperatures. Those one cell creatures are primary producers of the ocean called algae. They produce 60% of the breathable oxygen on Earth.
Stock up on your supply now. North Carolinians are great at that. First word of a storm coming their way and every gallon of milk and loaf of bread disappears off the shelves in local grocery stores. I guess we take warnings no matter their manifestation seriously. That by the way is a joke. There is no way a human being can save a lifetime of oxygen in a closet or basement. Can't happen. Even hospitals need regular delivaries. So does the biota of Earth. Just a little side note.
