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a collision of two giant monsters (tropical cyclones and mesoscale eddies)

IN­CREAS­INGLY POW­ERFUL TROP­ICAL CY­CLONES in the North Pa­cific Ocean may be fu­eling a pow­erful north-flowing ocean cur­rent, helping to boost the amount of heat it fer­ries to northern lat­i­tudes. By en­hancing the speed of some ocean whirlpools called ed­dies, and sup­pressing the spin of others, the passing storms may be ac­cel­er­ating the heat-carrying Kuroshio Cur­rent and that could warm the planet further.  [Read more] “a collision of two giant monsters (tropical cyclones and mesoscale eddies)”