In the past few weeks, sea-surface temperatures in some parts of the North Atlantic Ocean have soared to record heights.

Some spots are nearly 4 degrees Celsius above normal for this time of year.

What's going on? Here are some factors that might be at play.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/north-atlantic-heat-record-sea-surface-temperature

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