Imho, because we're seeing an East Pacific-based El Niño & SSTs are cooler in the cold tongue region at this time of the year, to go along with a -PMM (cold tongue of water into the NE Pacific), this is a red flag that ENSO related ocean-atmosphere coupling isn't going to be what… pic.twitter.com/155jnVCU1e

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