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Scientists monitoring new marine heat wave off B.C. coast similar to ‘the Blob’

The swath of unusually warm water stretches roughly from Alaska down to California, according to NOAA in the United States. The marine phenomenon began in the Gulf of Alaska sometime around June 15 and ballooned over the summer.Officials tracking the system said it is already the second-largest experts have seen since 1981 — the first year for which satellite data used to track marine heat waves is available. “Already, on its own, it is one of the most significant events that we’ve seen,” Andrew Leising, a research scientist at the NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif., said in a statement Thursday. >click to read< 19:37