El Niño Tracker - August 2015
Friday, August 21, 2015
Originally published in the August 2015 CLIMAS Southwest Climate Outlook
El Niño conditions continued for a sixth straight month and forecasts and the most recent outlooks offer a consistent cluster of forecasts calling for a clear El Niño signal similar to past strong events, lasting into early 2016. Forecasts focused on the persistence of sea-surface temperature (SST) anomalies (Figs.1–2) and on weakened trade winds, ongoing convective activity in the central and eastern Pacific, and El Niño-related ocean-atmosphere coupling. (read more)
Image Source - Australian Bureau of Meteorology
