Thursday, March 14, 2024

State of the oceans - March 14, 2024

 The ocean current maps is from March 11, but I can't complain


The Pacific belt is in turmoil.  A lot of turbulence coming out of the Great Mixing Bowl over by South America.  In 3d these would measure as the greatest current energy on the planet.  No chance of measurements, though.


The Gulf Stream is still powerful over the UK, but the Greenland cold current is throwing everything against it.  


The Arctic is taking a tumble again, but the tropics are still up a bit.  All very unstable.  There are no heating events in the Pacific, so we will have a long, cold Spring.  maybe.


These are the tropics dailies.  You can see how last year took off with our east Pacific heating event.  You can still see the big blob way in the south.


Really unstable, but the higher probability is on cold.  Note that the warmies only report the peak desert temperature, and I go for the cold night temp.  It is a lesson in physics on how we can have such a big difference with dry air.


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