Tuesday, March 15, 2022

State of the Oceans -- Beware the Ides of March, 2022

 This week I'll have to do it without my ocean current maps, he sometimes goes on vacation.  The temperature maps are more useful, and when they shift, then you look to ocean currents.

Noaa is now hinting that La Nina will be a 'three peat', which means three years in a row.  This is very rare, the most recent being right after the monster El Nino in 2016.  It is even more rare to have a 'hat trick' without a monster warming period.

With the world temps going down, I'm expecting noaa to say that La Nina is causing all this, and will soon be over.  This, however, puts them in the situation of saying that ocean currents are important.  And, much like the now-deceased polar vortex fairies, they still believe that wind fairies drive the ocean currents.  Thus, they could say that 'climate change' is driving the currents because 'hotter is windier'.  



The sea temps are showing that there is no heat signature with the Pacific belt.  This has not happened since I've been watching the maps.  But I'm the only one watching.  The Gulf Stream has a slight heat signature and may be moving the warmer blob closer to the UK.  

The obvious inference, using physics, is that the Pacific is staying cold for a while.  The warmie press is reduced to talking about the Antarctica ice extent.  


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