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Compiled daily
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Right now
From the latest data of our climate monitors. Each card links to the dashboard with the full picture.
What normally shapes the weather here
Large climate systems, ranked by how strongly they normally act on this country, greatest first. “Episodic” systems come and go with events and seasons; “persistent” ones are always in play.
The world’s oceans today
Sea-surface temperature against its 2003–2014 average for the date, a few days ago. Orange to dark red: warmer than that average; blue and purple: cooler. In an El Niño, a band of warm water stretches along the equator in the eastern Pacific.
Cooler
Warmer
Map: NASA Worldview, GHRSST Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) sea-surface temperature anomaly.
How we know this
- Source: the live signals come from our climate monitors, which download them each night from NOAA, the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center and NOAA Coral Reef Watch. The ranking of climate systems is a short curated list per system, each with its source.
- Update cadence: compiled every night right after the monitors; each card says how current its data is.
- Methods: cities, crop regions and tide gauges are matched to countries by name; each NOAA reef region goes to the country it is named after or lies in, else the nearest coast (Natural Earth 1:110m borders), and a few shared or disputed reef groups are left out. Small islands missing from that map appear under the name the tide-gauge network uses.
- Uncertainty: our monitors cover selected places: 48 major cities, 26 crop regions, about 150 tide gauges and 214 reef areas. A country with no card is simply not covered, not free of the problem.
- Limitations: not a forecast or warning. For warnings, follow your national weather service.
- Primary data: El Niño · Heatwaves · Crop drought · Wildfires · Coastal flooding · Coral bleaching · How this page is built