Climate Reanalyzer
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Sea surface temperature (SST) data visualizations
  • fake_meows@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    You can change the region area view to ‘nino 3.4’, which is a 5-month running trend of the nino area.

    Explanation of the nino 3.4 tool is at this page:

    https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/nino-sst-indices-nino-12-3-34-4-oni-and-tni

    This is one driver of the big disasters like storms, droughts, floods, heat waves and other bad weather that is all being amplified by climate.

    The newest month for which there is a full 5-month run would be October/24 which showed a cooling trend, but in the past 60 days it kicked back to a dramatic warming /el nino conditions. Supposedly they forecast a 60% chance of a switch back to neutral conditions in March-April-May.

    • fake_meows@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Under the line graph, there is a small button labelled “show T2 anomaly map”.

      If you click that (terrifying) it visualizes how hot the polar regions are getting. Today is about 10-15° above trend.