Sunday, November 17, 2019

Keeping Track of the Latest MJO Event - 16-17/11/2019


The MJO event has finished crossing the whole of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. This event has killed the equatorial trade winds across the western 55 % of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. It is also starting to warm the SST anomalies off the west coast of Equador to 2.3 C.

A. 1000 hPa Wind Map.


Ref: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-192.95,0.57,416

B. This time the SST Anomalies off the west coasts of Panama, Columbia & Equador have increased to 2.3 to 2.5 C.

It will be interesting to see if this warming continues and spreads south towards the west coast of Peru!


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