"The issue, really, this year is the anomalously warm sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic, " Lepore said.
But although a warm sea is a necessary condition for a hurricane, it is not a sufficient one.
During the Jurassic period, 165 million years ago, the area was a warm shallow sea.
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As the ice thins, more solar radiation can enter the ocean and warm the sea water, which will cause icecaps to melt more quickly.
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For roughly the first half of the past fifty million years, the region lay beneath a warm, shallow sea.
Birds have been found with the substance congealed on their feathers, reducing their waterproof coating and ability to stay warm and afloat at sea.
She said the birds have been found with the substance congealed on their feathers, which reduces their waterproof coating and ability to stay warm and afloat at sea.
In 1997, construction began on a 900 sq. ft. facility which would become the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center where air and water temperatures could be kept sea turtle warm.
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In most parts of the world the surface of the sea is not warm enough for hurricanes to form.
But the Gold Coast can also surprise even the most dedicated beach snob with its sea hazed dunes, warm waves and soft, clean sand.
The average temperature is above 40C, the sea is like a warm bath, the golden sand burns your feet and the ubiquitous tarmac is starting to sizzle.
These large warm and cold, high and low sea levels are slow-developing and long-lasting, and will certainly influence global climate and weather for the coming summer and into next fall.
Purves, a no-nonsense, matter-of-fact former entrepreneur in Australia, told me that the sea around Greenland is so warm that up to 100 new species of fish have been found recently.
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It is opening up a resort city where temperatures reach 40C in summer, and will be as warm as 10-15C by the sea when the Olympics take place from February 7-23 next year -- with organizers already stockpiling snow due to sporadic falls, Black says.
Indeed, some of the strongest emissions come from algal species found in warm, often windless waters such as the Sargasso Sea.
On the other side of the north Pacific, temperatures are warm (shown in red and white) and sea levels remain high at four to 13 inches above normal.
During warm interglacial periods, when there may have been no sea-ice at all, an abundance of marine organisms would have left behind fossilised shells.
They have since been pushed into the Sea of Japan by a branch of the warm Kuroshio current that is running much closer to land than usual, and have spread up Japan's west coast and even through the Tsugaru strait between Japan's main island, Honshu, and northern Hokkaido into the Pacific Ocean.
These are the materials used to form dishes such as the warm salad of prawn tails, fish stew or pasta with sea urchin roe served in the restaurants of Villasimius.
Israel is particularly worried by Iran's eagerness to warm relations with Sudan and Eritrea, a strategic spot on the Red Sea that could threaten Israeli shipping.
Yet that is just what is happening in Greenland, whose relatively warm and wet sheet is on course to melt completely, bringing the prospect of a sea-level rise of perhaps seven metres.
Great white sharks are attracted to the warm ocean currents along Australia's southern coastline and are a constant concern for divers who work in the sea.
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