Sea temperatures near all-time highs as El Niño looms, says EU monitor

PARIS, France — The European Union’s climate monitor said Friday that ocean temperatures are edging toward record highs as conditions shift toward a potentially powerful El Niño weather pattern. Samantha Burgess from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) said sea surface temperatures in recent days were just shy of the all-time highs of 2024 — and May looked set to break its own record. “It’s a matter of days before we are back in record-breaking ocean SSTs (sea surface temperatures) again,” Burgess, strategic lead for climate at ECMWF, told AFP. READ: Super El Niño + Mideast crisis: Things […]...

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