{"id":125030,"date":"2019-12-27T01:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T00:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/27\/hot-blob-vast-patch-of-warm-water-off-new-zealand-coast-puzzles-scientists\/"},"modified":"2019-12-27T01:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T00:57:54","slug":"hot-blob-vast-patch-of-warm-water-off-new-zealand-coast-puzzles-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=125030","title":{"rendered":"Hot blob: vast patch of warm water off New Zealand coast puzzles scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Area of water in the Pacific Ocean is 6C hotter than normal, possibly due to a lack of wind in the regionA spike in water temperature of up to 6C above average across a massive patch of ocean east of New Zealand is likely to have been caused by an \u201canti-cyclone\u201d weather system, a leading scientist says.Appearing on heat maps as a deep red blob, the patch spans at least a million square kilometres \u2013 an area nearly 1.5 times the size of Texas, or four times larger than New Zealand \u2013 in the Pacific Ocean. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/27\/hot-blob-vast-and-unusual-patch-of-warm-water-off-new-zealand-coast-puzzles-scientists\" target=\"_blank\">Hot blob: vast patch of warm water off New Zealand coast puzzles scientists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Area of water in the Pacific Ocean is 6C hotter than normal, possibly due to a lack of wind in the regionA spike in water temperature of up to 6C above average across a massive patch of ocean east of New Zealand is likely to have been caused by an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}