The warm-water blob is back off the B.C. coast

The blob, which is a popular term for a huge patch of warmer-than-normal water in the northern Pacific Ocean, has returned off the B.C. coast.
It is a phenomenon that started showing up in 2013 and has been appearing off and on since then, said Armel Castellan, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Castellan said the blob, which covers about 2,000 kilometres, has returned after stagnant and unseasonably warm weather this summer and fall.
“It’s not that the