‘The Blob’… on winter vacation or gone for good?

Is ‘The Blob’ taking a winter breather? Or, is it fizzling out? After over two years, is The Blob finally dead? The giant, persistent mass of warm ocean water seems to have cooled over the last few months, possibly because of another warm ocean phenomenon that is now dominating the Pacific.
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“The Blob” is the knot of red (warm seawater) pressed up against the West Coast. This map shows how the sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly had moved an