Data from the Canadian Ice Service, whose records date back to 1969, show this is unusual. The current volume of ice is the third lowest ever recorded.
After making landfall on Cape Breton Island with strong winds, the centre of the cyclone swerved back over water into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where it passed close to two oceanographic buoys operated by Fisheries and Oceans Canada
You may recall the previous post on the seminar that I attended on Comparative Physiology of Brown Adipose Tissue at the Experimental Biology meeting last week.
Here are some of the comparative physiology abstracts that were presented at the meeting on this topic:
The wind and waves were so powerful during the storm that the different layers of water in the ocean got mixed, heating up the deeper layers of ocean and cooling off the surface layer.
A recently announced moratorium on commercial fishing of mackerel and herring off the East Coast is necessary to allow the stocks to recover, researchers with Fisheries and Oceans Canada say. And it may take more than one year.