Introduction
El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- The Tropical Pacific Ocean is still warmer than normal, but the atmosphere has yet to show any significant response to the ocean.
An overview of the present climate in the tropical South Pacific Islands, with an outlook for the coming months, to assist in dissemination of climate information in the Pacific region.
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The equatorial Pacific Ocean remains close to El Niño thresholds, but the atmosphere has yet to show any significant response to the warmer than normal sea surface temperatures.
The ensemble of global climate models for rainfall that are used in METPI show an area of higher than normal rainfall associated with the SPCZ position.
The tropical Pacific is close to El Niño thresholds, but the atmosphere is still not showing patterns typical of El Niño.
Sources of South Pacific rainfall data