Time to Compare Ocean Temperature Anomalies
The global sea-surface anomaly map from a year ago........
Below is the global sea-surface anomaly map from two months ago.......
The last image is the latest sea-surface temperature anomaly as of July 7th, 2008. La Nina is basically gone as we are now officially in a neutral situation across the equatorial Pacific Ocean with above-normal sea-surface temperatures off of South America and below-normal sst's over the central/western equatorial Pacific. Neutral conditions are expected to continue through the early Fall. The pocket of cooler-than-normal water that has been persistent off the U.S. and Canadian west coasts is not nearly as pronounced as it was a couple of months ago. Also, water temperatures have warmed above-normal over the north Atlantic east of New England, but much of the tropical storm/hurricane breeding ground areas of the Atlantic are fairly close to normal right now despite a category 3 hurricane.
