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Old January 29th 17, 10:01 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default El Nino back?

On Sunday, 29 January 2017 19:50:14 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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I find that pretty worrying. It seems that the climate system is switching into a new mode. I wonder if the fires in Chile are related to this,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-38766925
or whether it is caused by the lack of sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere.