Sea surface temperatures in a key monitoring region for El Niño continue already at record high levels for this time of year. This is due to the long-term warming of the tropics (human-caused climate change), as well as the growing +ENSO event.

Learn more in my upcoming briefing on Tuesday: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-briefings.

Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1: https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.highres.html.