{"609592":{"#nid":"609592","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The ocean is cooking off the Southern California coast. Here\u0027s why.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe waters off the Southern California coast are now approaching tropical temperatures found in parts of the balmy Caribbean Sea: 79.2 degrees Fahrenheit. That\u0026#39;s the highest since measurements began in 1916, and 7-8 degrees warmer than average.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EEmanuele Di Lorenzo\u003C\/strong\u003E, a marine scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026#39;s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, said\u0026nbsp;the event is local.\u0026nbsp;Still, Southern California\u0026#39;s balmy oceans will likely stay warm for a while \u0026mdash; much longer than terrestrial heat waves.\u0026nbsp;Oceans aren\u0026#39;t \u0026quot;so easy to cool off,\u0026quot; said Di Lorenzo.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-08-10 19:27:37","changed_gmt":"2018-08-10 19:27:37","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Semiconductor Workforce","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2018\/08\/10\/record-ocean-heat-southern-california\/?utm_source=feedburner\u0026utm_medium=feed\u0026utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29\u0026utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher#t1huC2tURkqN","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"590891":{"id":"590891","type":"image","title":"Emanuele Di Lorenzo","body":null,"created":"1493134111","gmt_created":"2017-04-25 15:28:31","changed":"1493134111","gmt_changed":"2017-04-25 15:28:31","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225133","name":"Emanuele DiLorenzo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Emanuele%20DiLorenzo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Emanuele%20DiLorenzo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32920,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Emanuele%20DiLorenzo.jpg?itok=_9QXeBHW"}}},"media_ids":["590891"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}