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 | 80 and over inches | 60–79 inches | 40–59 inches | 20–39 inches | 10–19 inches | Under 10 inches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alaska | 0.318% | 0.389% | 0.159% | 0.114% | 39.7% | 25.1% | |||||
Arizona | 48.7% | 3.90% | |||||||||
Utah | 52.3% | 8.61% | |||||||||
Yukon | 3.35% | 17.0% | 71.1% | 8.49% | |||||||
Northwest Territories | 53.7% | 0.342% | |||||||||
District of Columbia | 100% | ||||||||||
Florida | 0.596% | 6.59% | 0.114% | ||||||||
Idaho | 22.8% | 66.2% | 10.9% | ||||||||
New Hampshire | 82.5% | 17.5% | |||||||||
Rhode Island | 4.64% | 3.94% | |||||||||
Vermont | 0.378% | 99.6% | |||||||||
Washington | 0.513% | 0.217% | 20.8% | 35.5% | 3.68% | ||||||
Wyoming | 94.9% | 5.08% | |||||||||
Nunavut | 0.352% | 1.91% | 11.2% | 0.496% | |||||||
Montana | 2.47% | 97.5% | |||||||||
Maine | 0.133% | 0.284% | 76.3% | ||||||||
North Dakota | 3.12% | 96.9% | |||||||||
Kentucky | 99.1% | 0.934% | |||||||||
Nova Scotia | 0.847% | 0.183% | |||||||||
Virginia | 0.126% | 91.0% | 8.86% | ||||||||
Delaware | 0.762% | 99.1% | |||||||||
Prince Edward Island | 1.25% | 0.264% | 98.4% | ||||||||
Saskatchewan | 100% | ||||||||||
Mississippi | 23.9% | 76.0% | |||||||||
West Virginia | 78.4% | 21.6% | |||||||||
Nebraska | 62.3% | 37.7% | |||||||||
Texas | 0.183% | 22.8% | 54.5% | 22.2% | 0.422% | ||||||
Missouri | 75.4% | 24.6% | |||||||||
Louisiana | 0.184% | 0.204% | 57.2% | ||||||||
Hawaii | 1.74% | 1.20% | 0.113% | 0.444% | 2.10% | 58.7% | |||||
North Carolina | 0.319% | 1.70% | 0.120% | ||||||||
Oregon | 23.8% | 6.51% | 41.2% | 0.940% | |||||||
New Brunswick | 0.522% | 23.7% | 0.147% | ||||||||
Alabama | 9.73% | 69.9% | |||||||||
New Mexico | 80.4% | 19.5% | |||||||||
Kansas | 17.1% | 78.3% | 4.62% | ||||||||
Wisconsin | 100% | ||||||||||
British Columbia | 0.126% | 0.306% | 0.252% | 17.8% | 43.0% | ||||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 0.392% | 21.6% | 3.34% | 0.586% | |||||||
New Jersey | 0.329% | 99.7% | |||||||||
South Carolina | 7.80% | 92.1% | |||||||||
Michigan | 100% | ||||||||||
Alberta | 8.49% | 91.5% | |||||||||
Connecticut | 99.9% | ||||||||||
Pennsylvania | 59.2% | 40.8% | |||||||||
Colorado | 11.2% | 88.8% | |||||||||
Nevada | 0.983% | 29.3% | 69.7% | ||||||||
Massachusetts | 1.78% | 0.195% | 8.01% | ||||||||
Georgia | 33.6% | 66.3% | |||||||||
New York | 0.105% | 2.89% | 61.4% | ||||||||
Maryland | 0.874% | 0.157% | 7.94% | ||||||||
Québec | 0.475% | 72.8% | 16.1% | ||||||||
Manitoba | 4.00% | 96.0% | |||||||||
Oklahoma | 36.1% | 61.0% | 2.99% | ||||||||
Tennessee | 100% | ||||||||||
Ontario | 94.0% | 6.00% | |||||||||
California | 0.110% | 4.72% | 56.2% | 31.3% | 1.42% | ||||||
Arkansas | 100% | ||||||||||
South Dakota | 18.0% | 82.0% | |||||||||
Ohio | 32.0% | 68.0% | |||||||||
Indiana | 25.2% | 74.8% | |||||||||
Minnesota | 100% | ||||||||||
Iowa | 100% | ||||||||||
Illinois | 23.9% | 76.1% | |||||||||
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