The warm blob off The West Coast.

Living here in the Beautiful Pacific Northwest, an area that depends on water to keep it green, I could not help but be concerned about are lack off snowfall in the mountains this past winter. Why? It is the snowpack that provides water to our rivers and streams an therefore our greenery. Looks like a dry brown summer this year. Being concerned I did some research to find out why we are so dry. It turns out there is a mass, "blob" if you will, of warmer than normal water in the Pacific just off the U.S. West coast. This blob has been screwing up the normal weather pattern that sees storms from The Gulf of Alaska with their cooler air dropping snow in the mountains with some occasional lowland snow for the Seattle area. The question now is how the blob formed? Here is what I found out. 

I went to numerous sites on the web and came across The Department of Meteorlogy for North Border University, a private college on the U.S. Canadian Border just south of Victoria B.C. The site has a great article written by Professor Georges E. Planhavven (What country did that originate from?). According to Dr. Planhavven the blob is a phenomenon caused by a "hitch" in the rotation of the Earth caused the unbalanced mass of the Earth. The paper goes into detail (man does it ever. As boring as a Navy Technical manual) about how this "unbalance" came about causing the Earth to slow its rotation, like a hitch in one's step, when the Pacific Ocean, specifically the East Pacific (west coast U.S.) is facing the sun. Now this slowing of only a few hundreds of a second is enough time for extra solar radiation to be absorbed by the Ocean and thereby throw off our weather.

Now we know that this is a recent problem so something had to set it off. Dr. Planhavven theorizes that recent seismic activity in the Western Pacific (Earthquake in Japan and tsunami and the Boxing Day earthquake a few years earlier) caused a slight bulge in the Earth which set up what is called "mass unbalanced modulation" causing our now uneven rotation. He further states that this is not permanent and will dampen itself out within the next decade.

Wow, no I now. I am sorry I can't post the links to where I got my info, I am writing this at 12AM on my IPad and still can't get the cut and paste thing down on this.