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During an El Niño event, the trade winds that normally blow from east to west across the tropical Pacific weaken or even reverse direction³⁵.

This causes the warm surface waters that are usually found in the western Pacific along the coasts of Ecuador/Peru/Chile to spread eastward along the equator¹³⁵. As a result, the ocean heat that is normally stored in the western Pacific is released to the atmosphere in the central and eastern Pacific²⁴. This affects the global weather patterns and climate¹²³⁵.

Sources:

(1) El Niño: Pacific Wind and Current Changes Bring Warm, Wild Weather. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/ElNino.

(2) What are El Niño and La Niña, and how do they change the weather?. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64192508.

(3) El Niño - National Geographic Society. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/el-nino/.

(4) El Niño and Extreme Ocean Heat Are About to Clash for the 2023 .... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/el-nino-and-extreme-ocean-heat-are-about-to-clash-for-the-2023-hurricane-season/.

(5) El Niño and La Niña: Frequently asked questions. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/el-ni%C3%B1o-and-la-ni%C3%B1a-frequently-asked-questions.

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Peter du Toit 2y ago

Why the concern with current sea surface temperatures?

”Just the top few metres of our oceans store as much energy as the entirety of our atmosphere. I'm very concerned for later this year into 2024.”—Dr Thomas Smith

(https://twitter.com/DrTELS/status/1650562388377174020)

SubnetMask 2y ago

Global warming phenomenons are all fake, it doesn’t exist, the Earth always had warmer periods and cooler periods throughout history. Stop spreading lies

Peter du Toit 2y ago

This is correct.

We have just come out of a longer than normal cooler La Niña period.

We are now moving into the warmer El Niño phase. The last El Niño event we had was in 2015/16 which was described as a “super El Niño” as a result of the heat it created.

Btw here is how Sea Surface Temperatures are measured https://argo.ucsd.edu

The Argo floats are currently collecting about 12,000 data profiles each month (400 a day).

SubnetMask 2y ago

Keep believing that fantasy.

CheezeGrater 🇿🇦 2y ago

Thanks for sharing

Peter du Toit 2y ago

Just a correction in the text above this should read:

“This causes the warm surface waters that are usually found in the EASTERN Pacific along the coasts of Ecuador/Peru/Chile to spread WESTWARD along the equator¹³⁵. As a result, the ocean heat that is normally stored in the eastern Pacific is released to the atmosphere in the central and western Pacific²⁴. This affects the global weather patterns and climate”

The east/west flow was written incorrectly