Equatorial Atlantic Cooling Much Faster Than Expected
After over a year of (alleged – Ed) record-high global sea temperatures, the equatorial Atlantic is cooling off more quickly than ever recorded, which could impact weather around the world
Over the past year, surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean hit some new highs as temperatures across the globe (allegedly – Ed) reached record-breaking heights in general.
But, it seems that something has occurred to reverse the case in the Atlantic Ocean with its surface temperatures suddenly dropping at a record speed over the past few months.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), data shows that the Atlantic’s sea surface temperatures began cooling since May.
It appears that the Atlantic has been a degree or two Fahrenheit colder than normal for this time of year.
Now, oceans are evidently susceptible to many weather changes throughout the year. Typically during this time, the Atlantic’s temperatures are expected to rise, partly because of a complex weather pattern called El Niño.
El Niño refers to a warming of the ocean surface or above-average hotter temperatures in the ocean.
The Atlantic Ocean has been setting new heat records since March 2023, and one large reason for this is an especially strong El Niño that passed during 2023 and 2024.
But it now seems that the Atlantic’s El Niño is likely to be replaced by its counterpart La Niña, which is when ocean temperatures are unusually cold a little too early.
Both these weather patterns are incredibly complex and are susceptible to trade winds, solar heating, and rainfall which makes them difficult to predict.
However, the sudden shift in the Atlantic’s temperatures and its presumed transition into La Niña — which is typically predicted to start in September — has experts quite baffled.
“We’ve gone through the list of possible mechanisms, and nothing checks the box so far,” said Frans Philip Tuchen, a postdoctoral student at the University of Miami, to the New Scientist.
These unprecedented changes are evidently a cause for concern for the environment.
The NOAA says that changes in the El Niño and La Niña weather patterns could impact rainfall in surrounding continents, and that Atlantic Niños have been shown to increase the likelihood of hurricanes near the Cape Verde islands.
According to Michael McPhaden at NOAA, it could also influence the ocean’s cycles – with the Atlantic potentially delaying the Pacific Ocean’s La Niña in ‘a tug of war’ as the Pacific ‘tries to cool itself and the Atlantic tries to warm it’.
So far, whether or not the Atlantic is fully developing into La Niña is still being monitored.
If it does, then predictions on the climate for surrounding areas could change for the remainder of the year.
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Maurice Lavigne
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Both temperatureglobal and satellite data have measured an increase of atmospheric temperature over the last 18 months. If you subscribe to the notion that our oceans control atmospheric temperature by the release of H2O vapor, then the cause of the Atlantic cooling is the same as the atmospheric warming.
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Jan
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Not only the surface, but the whole northern Atlantic basin is cooling down according to the Argo data. It is happening since years ago and in my opinion the likely reason for that is the surplus below zero Celsius liquid water from the surplus of the melted arctic ice which sinks towards the triplepoint thermocline due to the low salinity/low temperature way below the tripple point and the positive enthalpy of salt solution in this low salinity just melted water further cooling the liquid water body. It then takes years after the melting impulse back at the high latitudes for this cold water to go with slow deep cold currents back to low latitudes and to upwell there in the tropical region. Thats the reason I always say the melting of the polar ice due to the atmospheric warming has its opposite side of the coin in the resulting cooling of the ocean body and lowering of its heat content respectively.
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Joe
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All climate change is LIES by the Khazarian Mafia. The 100 families that rule the world with FEAR. WAKE UP!!!!
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Max Deloaches
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One of Earth’s air conditioners is set to release its vast store of fresh water into the North Atlantic, which could have “significant” impacts on the Northern Hemisphere’s climate, including the breakdown of the Atlantic Meridional Circulation Current.
INFO from 2013 and 2024
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-a-wayward-arctic-current-could-cool-the-climate-in-europe
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/phoc/54/6/JPO-D-23-0184.1.xml
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
I have read Max Deloaches’s comments and the links he has supplied and I did NOT find one reference to any geothermal activity. So I ask: How did Green Land get next to (or in the midst) of the Arctic Ocean?
Have a good day
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
In 1969 Readers Digest published a book titled “Our Amazing World Of Nature”. Its 6th Chapter is titled “Nature’s Mightiest Forces” with a summary: “We live precariously on the thin, shifting crust off a turbulent, changing planet, the liveliest in the solar system. Our destiny has been shaped by such incomparable;y powerful forces as volcanic explosions, shattering earthquakes, upheaving mountain ranges and mile-deep ice sheets that grind inexorably across entire continents.” Sigurdir Thorariknsson wrote the first essay titled “An Island Is Born”. “On November 14, 1963, a fishing vessel was cruising some four miles west of Geirfuglasler, Iceland’s southernmost offshore island. About 7:30 a.m. the skipper, engineer and cook felt the boat sway irregularly as if it were caught in a whirlpool. A strange odor of sulfur permeated the atmosphere.
“In the distance, toward the south, the skipper spotted dark smoke coming from the ocean surface; he trained his binoculars on what he thought might be a burning ship. Instead he saw the black columns of a volcanic eruption rising grotesquely upward.”
See the point of my previous comment??? Have a good day
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
Before I first commented I had reviewed whom Yasmeen Hamadeh was. And besides being a good writer she didn’t seem to have any background to write this article which has generated mostly informed responses as her article certainly appeared to be written by an informed author.
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a good writer, began writing his Sherlock Holmes mysteries there was no forensic science. Because Yasmeen is a good writer I hope she will write more about Meteorology which certainly needs much help after being in the beginning of human history.
Have a good day
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