On Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 7:50:14 PM UTC, Graham P Davis wrote:
OK, I know the answer from specialists would be "no" but I wonder what
the locals in S America would say. Sea-surface temperatures along the
coast are as much as 4C above normal. I don't see why this wouldn't be
causing all the usual catastrophic symptoms of an El Nino such as the
death of local fish. In the past, El Nino events would have been defined
by the state of the waters along the coast, not by anomalies way out in
the Pacific.

http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/oper/...maly_oper0.png

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. [Retd meteorologist/programmer]
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Yes I noticed how warm the SST had got when I glance at this a few minutes ago. http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/rtg_l...maly_oper0.png Not just the coastal fringe, the above average SSts stretch out well into the Pacific.

Nearer to home the 'cool pool' in the N Atlantic seems to be far less of a a real feature now.

Graham
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