Word: sea
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...example, when El Nino was firmly in control, the Atlantic hurricane season was over almost before it began. La Nina, by contrast, partners with wind patterns that favor the formation of Atlantic Ocean hurricanes. The problem is that forecasters at the moment are looking at a mixed picture. While sea-surface temperatures in parts of the tropical Pacific have dropped precipitately, there are still substantial patches of warmth hanging around South America's Pacific coast. Once this warmth dissipates, tropical storms will be able to march across the Atlantic unopposed...
...just a wedge of chilly water, parked at a depth of 70 fathoms in the western Pacific and extending from Papua New Guinea to the international dateline. As they tracked it over the next few months, following its development through a vast network of buoys tethered to the sea floor, it slowly expanded up and east, toward South America. Now, like a spume-blowing whale, it has broken through to the surface, forcing temperatures across a 5,000-mile strip of ocean to drop more than 15[degrees]F in just four weeks...
32.The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway...
...Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
...more so. While the official estimate in area papers was "several hundred thousand," that's kind of like saying Mt. Everest is big, or Antarctica is cold, or that the Federal Government has a bureaucracy. By the start of the fireworks at nightfall, the Mall was covered by a sea of people extending from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the steps of the Capitol nearly three miles away...