2022 Ocean Changes

If you look closely at ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) regions, you can nicely see the developing cold “waveforms”, as the pressure patterns are creating strong easterly surface trade winds. These drive the wind-driven ocean surface cooling, and peak cold anomalies are now focused more towards the eastern regions. Since early October of 2021, there has been a temperature anomaly in the ENSO 3.4 region that reveals a stronger cooling […]