{"id":778579,"date":"2026-07-03T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778579\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:56:09","slug":"europes-record-heatwave-linked-to-mysterious-cold-blob-in-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778579\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s record heatwave linked to mysterious \u2018cold blob&#8217; in Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/671456_2043872_updates.jpeg\" alt=\"Melting ice, ocean currents fueling Europe\u2019s Heat crisis, study shows\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Melting ice, ocean currents fueling Europe\u2019s Heat crisis, study shows<\/p>\n<p>As Europe has been hit by its most severe heat wave ever recorded, scientists point to an unlikely accomplice: a patch of unusually cold water in the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>The region has been baking in temperatures of above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, with France having had the hottest temperatures recorded, hundreds of schools in Britain closed, and more than a thousand heat-related deaths recorded. <\/p>\n<p>In contrast, however, just a few hundred kilometres away towards the west, between Greenland and Ireland, there is a strange blue blotch that shows temperatures actually falling as the rest of the world heats up.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe the European heat crisis is exacerbated by the \u201ccold blob.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referred to as the \u201ccold blob,\u201d this phenomenon might even be worsening Europe\u2019s heatwave problem instead of offering a solution.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists elaborate on how the melting ice from Greenland ends up dumping fresh water into the oceans, thus interfering with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which is a key current that moves warm water from the tropics towards the north.<\/p>\n<p>As per the studies, the blob has been cooled by up to 0.9 degrees Celsius since 1900, even as global sea surface temperature increased by 1 degree. <\/p>\n<p>Scientists now give a 50% chance of an AMOC shutdown this century that can bring dire consequences such as even harsher European weather, droughts in Asia and Africa, and rising sea levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melting ice, ocean currents fueling Europe\u2019s Heat crisis, study shows As Europe has been hit by its most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-778579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}