I think I've read 90% of your blogs if it's only four years old. I want to point out something. I think our new normal has arrived. I think as the snow/ice line has retreated north for the Northern Pacific the wind pattern has shifted with it. This La Nina of 2018 should have produced colder SSTs in my local area(Sonoma Coast). I think we are a full 2~3 degrees(Fahrenheit), on average, warmer than any La Nina in the last 25 years. Yes we are only barely touch 49 degrees when we used to routinely hit 46 for a spring time upwelling. I can mention many differences in the animals, their behavior, their amount, their patterns of local, etc. as well. As you know the warm "blob" of 2014~2017 was unusual even in historical context. I truly believe the "Nino" regions are not where they used to be. The water at the equator, and everywhere else, is different. It's as if the Nino regions are a full 5~10 degrees of the equator and subsequent wind patterns are changing with them. I'm not meaning to be alarmist but if you surfed/sat on the same beach almost every day in CA for the last 30 years you would draw the same conclusion. The fact that it's obvious enough in a short human life span should scare the crap out of people.