Pacific West Coast Ocean Warmer

Hi Lloyd, warm ocean down there! But same up here in BC.  Droughts in the rainforest, this year's salmon in big trouble.

Readers of your blog can see the ever-changing blob for themselves here:

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-121.61,45.94,793

Drag the view you like and click anywhere to get a reading of sea surface temperature anomaly.  Click on "earth" to get full menus - wind mapping at any elevation too, very cool.

I've been tracking this slow-moving ocean heater for months, there were some +5.3C hotspots out there last week.

David Shipway

Cortes Island, BC, Canada