IT is unfortunate that when the entire Equatorial Pacific Ocean has warm anomaly now., Your entire spot light is the long term average temperature anomaly of Nino 3.4 region only. Ultimately any selected region in the Pacific Ocean is simply “line drawn on water surface” and seems to me meaningless. Please see one your own figure from at another site given .below. (The picture cannot be Pasted; Sorry) Gopinathan Krishnan is a Scientist from the 7th “World”.