SECC Summer Climate Outlook : Big Changes in the Pacific Ocean

[Joel Paz]

The Southeast Climate Consortium (SECC) recently released its summer
climate outlook.

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July 7, 2009
The Pacific Ocean is transitioning into the El Niño Phase.

Ocean temperatures in the past month have warmed rapidly in the
eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean and are now above the 0.5 C
threshold that commonly designates El Niño conditions. This warming
completes the transition from a weak La Niña as late as March 2009
through several months of neutral conditions in April, May, and June,
to impending El Niño for the remainder of 2009. El Niño refers to a
periodic (every 2-7 years) warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean along
the equator from the coast of South America to the central Pacific.

You can read the entire article at:
http://elnino.agen.ufl.edu/forecasts/current_climate_outlook.php
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