El Niño/La Niña Update (September 2014)
08 septembre 2014
![Cyclone over Pacific. Massive cyclone related to El Nino phenomena swirling over the Pacific Ocean.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_image_x1_768x512/public/2023-06/AdobeStock_599303208.jpeg?h=ac778ff2&itok=09k-YN2B)
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Despite warming of the Tropical Pacific Ocean up until June, the overlaying atmosphere largely failed to respond. As a result, ocean temperature anomalies along the equator have decreased over the past two months. Changes in the wind patterns in early-August brought some weak re-warming, but winds have now returned to near normal in the western Pacific, while the pattern of cloudiness has remained largely neutral.
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