I've been studying the sea temperatures for the past 18 months surrounding the West of Scotland and can see the massive jump in our recorded daily averages last year.

We usually see a dip in February and get a period of colder temperatures but did not get this at all and instead of increasing we have seen the smallest temperature increase between now (20th June) and May that we have seen in years (the lowest ever in the data I am reviewing which is going back to 2013)

The El Nino doesn't affect us directly here in Scotland but it we have definitely seen the impact of it. I'm curious to see how this year will pan out as we are currently at a daily average of 2 degrees behind this time last year.

Thanks for this information it is extremely interesting.