{"id":12489,"date":"2019-12-27T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T03:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/27\/hot-blob-vast-and-unusual-patch-of-warm-water-off-new-zealand-coast-puzzles-scientists"},"modified":"2019-12-27T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T03:29:21","slug":"hot-blob-vast-patch-of-warm-water-off-new-zealand-coast-puzzles-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12489","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 off NZ is 6C hotter than normal, possibly due to a lack of wind in the region<\/p>\n<p>A 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <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\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Area of water in the Pacific Ocean off NZ 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,56,467,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-oceans","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12490,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/12490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}