On The Brink Southern California Faces Dire, Drier Future

In 1958 a cheesy science-fiction movie scared and amused audiences across the nation. Called The Blob, it featured future superstar Steven McQueen in his first lead role. The poster had the tagline: “Indescribable! Indestructible! Nothing can stop it!” The movie featured a mysterious mass that emerged from a meteorite and grew larger and larger with every human and object it overwhelmed, ultimately threatening to consume an entire town. Fast forward to 2013 when climatologist Nicholas Bond was struck by the persistence of an extraordinarily large, warm circular mass of ocean water off Washington and the west coast of Canada.