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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Sharp SST Spike Upward to an El Nino State

Here's an unusual change -- a sharp increase in the sea surface temperature anomaly of the Nino34 region in the central Pacific Ocean -- the region taken to be most indicative of the ENSO state. The anomaly is now in El Niño territory, as it's above 0.5°C. (It takes 5 months being above this value to make an official El Niño, in the eyes of NOAA.)


So no El Niño yet, but still a impressive spike.
source: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/nino34.png

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2 comments:

  1. Layzej6:11 AM

    MET says: "Consensus is growing among scientists from a range of climate centres across the world that a weak El Niño is likely to occur during the coming northern hemisphere winter."
    - https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2018/09/26/a-weak-el-nino-is-likely/

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  2. Entropic man3:54 PM

    That is in line with the most recent BOM projection.

    http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/#tabs=Outlooks

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