Ocean currents dated Dec 10.
After waiting forever, the ocean current maps are out. I must be the only person in the world who looks at them.
That weird, upper return current is still going strong, and keeps the north band warm. I would have expected the warmth to disappear by now. There is no trace of the micro El Nino left. It was a blob of coherent current in the West Pacific.
Lots of weird action at the end of the Gulf Stream. The Greenland current has stopped, and the GS is looping into it. It still leaves the Iceland Gap devoid of warmth, but it is not freezing up as fast as I thought it would.
The famous El Nino is a sickly thing (I call it dead), and you will never see a picture of it. They use the charts for their convenience, and then pretend that there is no such thing as history.
The 'straight temps' maps shows the big warm blob, caused by the micro EN, is plunging south. That warm zone north of the equator in the East Pacific is caused by that return current, and may be one cause of Arctic chaos. The ocean warmth is curving back (in the South) to the East Pacific, and is driving that really cold water from the Antarctic away. This is a normal pattern.
The cold water from the north, along the Mexican border, should drive that eastern warm blob away, but only 50/50. That return current is the decisive factor here.
All in all, lots of new physics for me, and a total chaotic mess.
ps. no mention of El Nino for a while now. Time to rewrite history.
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