'Southern Blob' of hot ocean is causing a megadrought thousands of miles away in Chile
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In the southwest Pacific Ocean, there's a huge region of unusually warm water covering an area about the size of Australia, known as "the Southern Blob."
Several thousand miles away, the South American nation of Chile has been experiencing a megadrought for more than a decade, with dwindling rain and water supplies. On the surface, these two events have nothing to do with each other -- but, a new study found, they are linked by invisible forces of global atmospheric pressure and circulation.More Related News
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