http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif
Cold water is reappearing along the west coast of South America, after being gone for the past month. SSTs around Greenland continue to plummet.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif
Cold water is reappearing along the west coast of South America, after being gone for the past month. SSTs around Greenland continue to plummet.
The water off Africa doesn’t seem all that hot anymore. Maybe another dud hurricane season coming? One way or another the National Hurricane Center will find some way to race thru the alphabet again to prove that there are more storms.
I watch this page to see if a La Nina or El Nino is developing.
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/charts/ocean/real_time/xzmaps/
The records don’t go back very far so there isn’t a double dip La Nina to examine but so far it doesn’t look like another La Nina is brewing. But who knows?
If we could track marine life along the west coast of SA, we’d get a fair idea if cold deep water is once again upwelling at that location.
The trade winds have stayed strong, meaning if cold water is upwelling, it will start to spread westward. That’s a La Nina