#pacific-ocean

#pacific-ocean

Forecasters at the US Climate Prediction Center have issued a La Nina watch, indicating the Pacific Ocean surface will likely cool, heightening Atlantic storm risks.

"If the sea surface temperature patterns in the North Pacific were just the result of processes related to stochastic [random] variability in the past decade or two, we would have just been extremely unlucky, like a really bad roll of the dice."

'To my surprise, which is something I've never witnessed, was a light I noticed on the horizon, it looked as if it were surfacing out of the water and going up.'