COSPPac Pacific Weekly Access-S Update - Wednesday 05 February 2025
Ocean Outlook, fortnight to 21 February: • Sea surface temperature (SST) forecasts more than 0.8°Cabove normal are favoured in the following country EEZs: Palau, Guam, CNMI, most of FSM, PNG, most of Solomon Is., west Tuvalu, and southern French Polynesia. SST anomalies above 1.2°C are favoured in southern Palau, central CNMI, parts of PNG, southern French Polynesia, and Pitcairn Is.. Below normal SSTs are favoured in parts of Nauru, Kiribati. Elsewhere SSTs are predicted to be near-normal.