"Les & Claire" wrote in message
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Alastair McDonald wrote:
"MichaelJP" wrote in message
news:4020f8e1$0$27525 They are certainly above average. See;



https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/products/...sstanomaly.gif

Cheers, Alastair

Alistair,
as a relative newbie here, could you explain what the
graphic
shows? I'm guessing it's degrees C above or below seasonal average. Am
I
close?

Les

The map is showing the sea surface temperature (SST) climate anomaly. I
think that by climate anomally the USN, who produce the map, mean the
difference between what it is and what they expect it should be. The
scale at the bottom is in degrees C. So the prevailing south westerlies
will be passing over SST 2.5C higher than normal.

If you go to;
https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/
and select OTIS you can get to that map, plus the climate map and the
current SST map, through the front door. There may be a better
explanation somewhere around there.

HTH,

Cheers, Alastair.