NotSparta wrote:Category5Kaiju wrote:https://i.imgur.com/jrou9Pu.png Behold....the "cool MDR" that has been widely chattered about that will stunt the hurricane season.
Oh wait a sec.

The climatology period of this plot is awful. It'd be difficult to get a cool MDR with it
My current favorite for SST plots is
Alex Boreham's website (cyclonicwx). Even there, both the Coral Reef Watch and OISST show pretty warm SSTAs:
(All images are GIF loops between CRW and OISST)

It's only when global means are subtracted that the MDR returns to mostly neutral, but still a far cry from the negative "SSTA - Global Mean" that we saw earlier.

There's also been
very significant anomalous warming of MDR and the Canary Current lately. 15-day change:
