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Story by Umair Irfan • 4h ago

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Huge blooms of sargassum seaweed have emerged in the Atlantic Ocean amid record-high water temperatures.©Joe Raedle/Getty Images

On Wednesday June 14, the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean reached an average temperature of73 degrees Fahrenheit.

That may sound like a pleasant day at the pool, but it’s actually a record high, and it will have global consequences. The average for this time of year, over the past three decades, is 71 degrees Fahrenheit. That two-degree difference reflects a gargantuan amount of extra energy stored in the ocean. The Atlantic has been riding a wave ofextreme heat since last year. And as summer sets in, the temperature will climb.

“This is an incredibly unusual year,” saidGabriel Vecchi, a climate scientist at Princeton University. “A warm Atlantic tends to have a lot of…