[C19fan]

Godzilla or Cthulhu????

[polymuser]

Wonder if it will ooze onto New Zealand, with a taste for soft, squishy leftists...

[PAR35]

If it is this hot in the South Pacific in December, think of how hot it will be south of the Equator in July!

Because we all know (except for those climate change deniers south of the Equator) that July is hotter than December.

(((is a /s needed? )))

[BitWielder1]

Dare we mention it's summer in the southern hemisphere right now?

[Eccl 10:2]

Whale farts

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Nah, Michael Moore just farted in the water again.

[1FreeAmerican]

Clearly visible at earth.nullschool.net

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/equirectangular/loc=165.000,-30.551

[BitWielder1]

What makes it red other than the false colored computerized map?

[Blueflag]

“It’s the size of Texas, sir.”

Name the movie ;-)

[moovova]

Get out the oyster crackers...we're having fish stew for dinner...

[MuttTheHoople]

God turning the ocean to blood?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Release the Kraken!”

[SIDENET]

Sounds like a nefarious cow fart scheme invented by white heterosexual men.

I think we should ban toilet paper.

[Redleg Duke]

Trump’s Fault. Because we pulled out of the Paris Accords!

[Beowulf9]

‘Red blob’. Could it be a relative of Elizabeth Warren, she claims she’s one of the red men.

[pepsi_junkie]

Professor James Renwick, a weather and climate researcher at Victoria University, said the phenomenon is caused when an area becomes concentrated with sunshine and little wind.

Come on, Prof. You should know you cannot mention the sun in any stories involving something in the environment getting hot. He'll lose all his grants for that silly claim!

[Tennessee Nana]

This happened because the NZers did not turn in enough guns...

[bluejean]

Not legit until they come up with a new name for it, like Red Blob Vortex Bomb.

[BuffaloJack]

It’s probably a normal event after volcanic activity like they recently had.

[cookcounty]

“Stretches tens of thousands of kilometers”

Illiterates writing headlines.

If this is true, the “blob” pretty much covers the entire Pacific or more.

Maybe they meant to say SQUARE kilometers?

[the_daug]

Professor Renwick said the heat wave could cause problems for local marine life if it penetrated beneath the ocean’s surface.

He said it was more likely the shallow layer of warm water, potentially up to 50m below the surface, would likely fade and dissipate in coming weeks as it heads towards South America.

Happens from time to time.