Adrian D. Shaw wrote:

Felly sgrifennodd Keith (Southend) :
I haven't seen that particular image showing such a cold pool to the the
south of NFL in recent months.

That map seems to have more -ve than +ve; can that be right in these
days of GW?

Adrian

I find that site to be misleading in that it gives false (cold) anomalies in
arctic regions. Also I'm not sure how you can see the difference between
small warm and cold anomalies.
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/climo.html has a more distinctive
boundary.

The cold anomalies in the Antarctic at the above site have been around for
the past ten years. I don't know how real they are. As the amount of data
they now have is more than was used to create the normals, I would have
thought it might be a good time to produce some new ones. Only problem -
all the anomalies would have to be recalculated. If the cold anomaly in the
Antarctic is real, it could be consistent with Global Warming if it were
due to increased melting. However, as it seems to persist all year, I'm not
sure that explanation holds water.

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Graham Davis
Bracknell