Top forecasting agencies in discussions after ‘uh-oh’ moment on key readings of Pacific Ocean temperatures
The top US climate agency is rethinking its modelling of the critical Pacific Ocean cycles that feed into the world’s atmospheric shifts, as record hot sea temperatures globally scramble weather patterns. Scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told the Financial Times they were holding discussions internally and consulting other national agencies about how to make forecasts more accurate.
Last year, El Niño helped drive global temperatures to a new record, accentuating the warming effects from rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. It also triggered a drought in Central America, which caused historic low water levels in the Panama Canal and immobilised shipping.
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