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Oceans are hot even as our summer has been cool

Linked here is a fascinating story by science writer Seth Borenstein of The Associated Press that covers a lot of ground (or perhaps, more appropriately, a lot of water). The central theme is that world ocean temperatures are the hottest on record, but the article covers many subjects concisely: El Nino, global warming, hurricane season, even the pattern of cooler temperatures over land that we've noted this summer (and will again in our area by next week).

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    Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States."

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