The tropical Pacific has cooled since the end of El Niño this spring, but the pace of cooling had slowed as of August.
2016 eastern Pacific hurricane season makes up for lost time
August 12, 2016
Climate experts are keeping their eyes on the tropical Pacific, watching a strip of cool water that may be one indicator that La Niña is brewing.
A record-smashing hurricane season in the central North Pacific. Water rationing in Puerto Rico. The biggest one-year jump in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. These and more of 2015's extreme events had one thing in common: El Niño.
With El Niño in the rearview mirror, the central tropical Pacific continued to cool in June 2016.
A deep pool of cool water that had been lurking beneath the surface of the eastern tropical Pacific in April began to emerge at the surface in May 2016.
Will the Great Barrier Reef recover?
May 26, 2016
