Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies: El Niño
OceansPhysical EnvironmentA composite of sea-surface temperature anomalies during El Niño from November to March during the following years: 1958, 1966, 1973, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1996, and 1998. When sea-surface temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific rise well above normal, it is known as an El Niño event.
NOAASea-surface temperature anomalies during El Niño. The most intense warming (2 to 2.25 degrees Celsius, dark brown) occurs off the coast of South America. Cooler areas (negative 2.25 to negative 2 degrees Celsius, dark blue) are in the Arctic Ocean.
-0.25 to 0.25 | 0.75 to 1.0 | 1.0 to 1.25 | 1.25 to 1.5 | 1.5 to 1.75 | Salt Marshes | Tungsten Mines | Oil Slicks (1990s) | |
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Nunavut | 0.352% | |||||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 0.392% | |||||||
South Carolina | 6.81% | |||||||
Arizona | 39 | |||||||
Utah | 23 | |||||||
Yukon | 1 | |||||||
Northwest Territories | 2 | |||||||
Idaho | 24 | |||||||
Wyoming | 1 | |||||||
Montana | 12 | |||||||
Oregon | 5 | |||||||
New Brunswick | 0.522% | 0.488% | 3 | |||||
New Mexico | 1 | |||||||
Michigan | 2 | |||||||
Colorado | 83 | |||||||
Nevada | 48 | |||||||
California | 0.110% | 0.156% | 62 | |||||
Alaska | 0.318% | 9 | 0.113% | |||||
District of Columbia | 100% | |||||||
Florida | 0.596% | 1.33% | 0.837% | |||||
New Hampshire | 1.37% | 1 | 57.6% | |||||
Rhode Island | 4.64% | 2.01% | 95.0% | |||||
Vermont | 5.93% | |||||||
Washington | 0.513% | 0.132% | 3 | 0.496% | ||||
Maine | 0.133% | 0.322% | 5.06% | |||||
Kentucky | 1 | 39.9% | ||||||
Nova Scotia | 0.847% | 0.591% | 1.05% | |||||
Virginia | 0.126% | 0.493% | 62.1% | |||||
Delaware | 0.762% | 33.7% | 99.3% | |||||
Prince Edward Island | 1.25% | 0.264% | 1.22% | 0.308% | ||||
Mississippi | 0.461% | 29.7% | ||||||
West Virginia | 3.63% | |||||||
Texas | 0.183% | 0.123% | 19.3% | |||||
Louisiana | 0.184% | 0.106% | 89.8% | |||||
Hawaii | 1.74% | 1.20% | 0.113% | 0.444% | 2.10% | 1.73% | ||
North Carolina | 0.319% | 0.191% | 16.0% | |||||
Alabama | 0.174% | 8.82% | ||||||
British Columbia | 0.126% | 0.160% | 0.210% | |||||
New Jersey | 0.329% | 15.3% | 1 | 99.2% | ||||
Connecticut | 0.797% | 99.9% | ||||||
Pennsylvania | 24.2% | |||||||
Massachusetts | 1.78% | 3.30% | 98.1% | |||||
Georgia | 2.72% | 0.104% | ||||||
New York | 0.105% | 0.102% | 26.9% | |||||
Maryland | 0.874% | 0.178% | 76.4% | |||||
Tennessee | 1.03% | |||||||
Ontario | 2.30% | |||||||
Arkansas | 0.397% | |||||||
Ohio | 18.7% | |||||||
Indiana | 44.2% | |||||||
Illinois | 6.79% |
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