10mo ago

Daily sea surface temperature, world

Sea surface temperature (SST) data visualizations

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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.

an extraordinary streak of 415 days above previous highs and we just crossed back to the previous year level

Daily surface air temperature, world https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world
- 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.