On Aug 31, 9:45*pm, Dawlish wrote:
Today's ENSO update from NOAA. Essentially; no change from last week:

•El Niño is present across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
•Sea surface temperatures (SST) remain +0.5 to +1.5 above-average
across much of the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
•Based on current observations and dynamical model forecasts, El Niño
is expected to strengthen and last through Northern Hemisphere winter
2009-10.

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/product...ng/lanina/enso...

There should be an update from the Australian BOM on wednesday.

Enso discussion from the Ausatralian BOM:

"Summary: Mixed El Niño indicators, but Pacific continues to warm"

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/

"Six of the seven leading international climate models surveyed by the
Bureau predict the tropical Pacific to continue to warm and to remain
above El Niño thresholds for the remainder of 2009."

Should the El Nino contunue to develop, it will be very interesting to
see how many monthly global temperature records are set - if any.