Anne Ominoushonestly wondering how much longer this very weak La Niña can possibly hold on
holy guacamole the HOT spots in the Pacific and Mediterranean Ocean are downright frightening
the meteorologists have called it.
the very weak La Nina that stuck around for a whole 3 months has dissipated
and we're back to ENSO neutral.
#wx #SeaSurfaceTemperatures #ENSO
https://apnews.com/article/la-nina-el-nino-climate-drought-9c357862ffdd8b0eb67e315c944a1707
La Nina exits after three weak months, leaving Earth in neutral climate state
La Nina, the natural cooling flip side of the better-known and warmer El Nino climate phenomenon, has dwindled away after just three weak months. Federal weather officials made the announcement Thursday. Earth is now in a neutral setting in the El Nino Southern Oscillation cycle. That's generally the most benign of the three states that help influence hurricane formation, droughts, floods and global temperatures. NOAA forecasts the neutral setting to last most if not all of 2025.
this la nina (can we still call it that?) looks likeit's being attacked by hot water
cant get over this.
the El Nino that went from October 2014 to May 2016 was the strongest El Nino in recorded history. (except that record was smashed last year, i guess)
We are in a La Nina right now, when equatorial Pac temps are cooler. let's look at this year's sea surface temp for comparison... (2015 is dark grey, 2024 is orange, 2025 is red)
YIKES
wanna get a load of how La Nina is faring in 2025? YIKES
ok... remember way back in 2023 when we had wall-to-wall coverage of the record breaking sea surface temperatures? then the coverage stopped.
but those sea surface temps never lowered.
some more conservative scientists said it was just a crazy El Nino
but others suggested climate change's pace was accelerating.
now, we are supposed to be in a La Nina. but those SST's? still just so, so high...
#ClimateChange #SeaSurfaceTemperatures
graph shows 2023 in dark grey, 2024 in yellow, 2025 in red
well, NOAA says a weak La Nina is here.
let's 'sea' what that looks like in 2025:
NOAA says La Nina ocean cooling has finally arrived, but it's weak and may cause fewer problems
A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but meteorologists say the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual. La Nina is the flip side of the better-known El Nino. It's an irregular rising of unusually cold water in a key part of the central equatorial Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide. The last El Nino was declared finished last June, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters have been expecting La Nina for months. The head of NOAA's El Nino team says it's not clear why this La Nina was delayed, but said it may have been influenced by the world's oceans being much warmer the last few years.
michael10-Jan-2025
#SeaSurfaceTemperatures and deeper #waterTemperatures reached a new record high in 2024
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1069679 #science #climateCatastrophe #GlobalWarming
Sea surface temperatures and deeper water temperatures reached a new record high in 2024
A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has found that ocean warming in 2024 has led to new record high temperatures. The ocean is the hottest it has ever been recorded by humans, not only at the surface temperature but also for the upper 2000 meters.
last year's insane weather was blamed by some on El Nino
now, they have been predicting a weak La Nina to emerge for a few months, and it just never crossed the threshhold (maybe it has by now tho)
yet, sea surface temperatures? they're not cooling much.
