Sea temperature in the Eastern Pacific points to a new episode of El Niño

The temperature The surface of the sea in the Eastern Pacific continues with anomalies of up to 3.3 degrees Celsius above the average, which means that the high probabilities of a new episode of the weather phenomenon of The boy on the coasts of South America.

This was announced this Thursday by the National Committee of Ecuador for the Regional Study of the El Niño Phenomenon (Erfen), after its weekly meeting where it analyzed the oceanographic and atmospheric conditions of the last days.

While in the Eastern Pacific the surface temperature of the sea is 3.3 degrees higher than the historical average for these dates, in the Central Pacific this anomaly is 1.3 degrees higher than usual.

The displacement of the Kelvin waves, which can intensify the phenomenon, continues, “and it is expected to reach the coast of Ecuador at the end of September,” as predicted by the Ecuadorian Erfen committee.

Rainfall has decreased compared to July, but ambient temperatures remain above their climatological values ​​in much of the Ecuadorian coast and the Galapagos Islands.

In the Andean and Amazon zone there have been occasional events of light and moderate rains.

For the next week, precipitation events of light and moderate intensity are expected, focused on the interior zone of the Ecuadorian provinces of Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Los Ríos and the interior zone of El Oro, according to the forecast of the national committee of the erfen.

“In the coastal profile, occasional and light precipitation events are not ruled out,” he pointed.

The El Niño climatic phenomenon consists of an unusual warming of the Eastern Tropical Pacific due to the weakening of the trade winds, which leads to torrential rains in coastal areas that cause flooding and overflowing of rivers, mainly in Ecuador and on the north coast of Peru.

Source: EFE