It may sound counterintuitive but as the world gets warmer, one part of the globe is due to get significantly cooler. This aberration occurs in an area extending from Greenland to Ireland called (even more counterintuitively) the North Atlantic Warming Hole (NAWH).

The NAWH – also known as “the cold blob” – appears on a global heat map as an anomalous blue patch in a sea of orange and yellow. While average ocean temperatures are rising as a consequence of human-driven climate change , the NAWH bucks the trend and instead displays a cooling pattern. Now, climate scientists predict changing winds will impact ocean circulation and intensify these cooling patterns from around 2040.

“Even though there’s global warming, it’s an area that’s cooling, and it’s expected to continue to cool,”

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