RE: Current (March 20) warm pool west of Peru?
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At this point, the flooding in Peru is largely related to the anomalously warm coastal SSTs occurring close to the typical peak in actual SSTs in that region. We've seen no westerly wind bursts (have actually had a prolonged period of enhanced easterlies in the central and west central Pacific), with the warming in the eastern Pacific related to westerly surface anomalies in that region.