Eastern Equatorial Atlantic Swings Suddenly From Record Hot To Anomalously Cold - Experts Are Baffled
It looks like the long run of record warm sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic since march 2023 is over - with a bang. June and July sea surface temperature in the equatorial east Atlantic has been anomalously cool.
Source: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/atlantic-nina-verge-developing-heres-why-we-should-pay-attention
July looks like it was outside the grey envelope which is the threshold for declaring either an ‘Atlantic Nina or Nino’ (so called because it is a multi-year climate cycle which is similar to La Nina and El Nino in the equatorial Pacific ocean). Note that sea surface temperatures in the eastern Atlantic also vary substantially according to an annual seasonal cycle, with minimum temperatures occurring during the northern hemisphere summer months. In February and March, the eastern equatorial Atlantic was record hot and in full Nino mode. The rapid switchover from Nino to potential Nina is unprecedented in the record (going back to 1982):
2024 began with extremely warm sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Atlantic during February to March, when temperatures exceeded 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). This was the strongest warm event since 1982. Equally remarkable was the rapid transition from warm to cold SST anomalies. Never before in the observed record* has the eastern equatorial Atlantic swung so quickly from one to another extreme event. [*Edited on August 22, 2023, to add "in the observed record"].
What has experts really baffled is that the strengthening trade winds normally associated with the seasonal summer cooling in the Atlantic have not materialised and in fact the trade winds are weaker than usual which would normally indicate a warmer equatorial Atlantic, not cooler. This is very puzzling:
Surprisingly, the observed cold anomalies in the eastern equatorial Atlantic during June/July 2024 coincide with a weakening of the southeasterly trade winds near the equator. Relaxed equatorial winds are usually associated with reduced upwelling and warm anomalies.
So what’s going on? Nobody knows. The experts are baffled. I can suggest one reason for the extreme warmth in Feb and March, followed by the rapid cooling in June and July, and the strange disappearance of the trade winds: Hunga Tonga stratospheric water vapour and the effect it is having and will continue to have upon global mean temperature plus circulation and weather patterns. The experts appear not to have thought of this.
The rapid tropical Atlantic cooling in June and July is also setting up the prediction of a very active 2024 hurricane season for a possible epic fail:
Oh dear. Egg. On faces.
“Hunga Tonga … The experts appear not to have thought of this.”. I’m sure they have thought of this but are desperate to suppress all news of it, as they have done by globally-coordinated censorship for over two years now. This is because Hunga Tonga has dramatically shown that atmospheric water vapour is a powerful greenhouse gas compared to the damp squib of atmospheric CO2 whose global warming impact is already saturated. Just look at the unprecedented spike in global temperatures which Hunga Tonga has caused, quite different from any recently recorded powerful El Nino, e.g. 1998 and 2016: https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_July_2024_v6_20x9-scaled.jpg.
This is central to the entire climate change hoax because, if all these so-called experts were honest instead of being professional liars, they would have to concede that there is no need to reduce global CO2 emissions at all.
I am sick of and totally disgusted by "the experts" in climate "science", in medicine, in ALL the 3 letter agencies of our Federal government, like the lying liars in BLS who yesterday admitted they had overstated--LIED--about number of jobs added in the year April 2023 thru March 2024 by nearly ONE MILLION JOBS! We could just laugh at them, ridicule them, if they didn't have so much power. Power to mandate poison injections, power to wreck the global economy with their climate fear mongering, power to prop up a corrupt government with their phony jobs numbers.