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You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.

Hey, shortwavers, it's Regina Barber and Emily Kwong.

And we are excited to announce the launch of Seekin.

Every Monday for the next eight weeks, we'll be traveling deeper and farther into the depths of the ocean.

From the sunlit zone to the twilight zone to the sea floor.

And we're going to start today right on the surface. Sitting beside us on a metaphorical

boogie board is producer Hannah Chin. Hi, Hannah. Hi, Emily. Hi, Gina. Today we're focused on how

the atmosphere and the ocean affect each other. I got to say, though, even though I grew up on the

West Coast going to the ocean every summer,

hunting in tide pools, watching sea lions, I didn't realize until recently that that same

ocean is also constantly affecting how we experience life on land.

Anyone who lives along the West Coast, the U.S., for instance, knows that we have really

mild winters, and that's a result of the fact that we have the ocean kind of mediating the weather there.

So this is Matt Luongo. He's climate scientists and a physical oceanographer at the University of Washington in Seattle.

In the northern hemisphere, the weather moves from the west to the east, and they're pretty strongly moderated by the ocean.

Yeah, I mean, I grew up in Washington State and California, and he's right.

Like, we do have very mild winters, but I never, like, put together.

It's because of the Pacific Ocean.

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