I often hear in talks that "the atmosphere (convection) is more sensitive to small SST anomalies where the mean SST is high." Here's a quick visualization of that in the real world. One dot for each 2.5°x2.5° point on the world ocean. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/MRMDp5toDO

— Kris Karnauskas (@OceansClimateCU) October 8, 2019