The North Atlantic Keeps Getting Colder

By Paul Homewood

http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_daily.php?plot=ssa&inv=0&t=cur

That cold blob in the North Atlantic just keeps getting bigger. A couple of months ago, it looked like this.

The KNMI climate explorer gives us this time series for the area involved (20 to 50W:40 to 60N):

http://climexp.knmi.nl/get_index.cgi

For the last couple of years, SSTs have been tumbling and are now back to 1980 levels. Expect a cool summer if we get weather off the Atlantic.

It is also worth noting that the North Pacific warm blob has well and truly gone.