Here in northeastern Brazil, we are experiencing odd weather patterns.  Generally, at this time of year SSTs in the Atlantic between Africa and South America are pretty warm.  Well, we still have 5-6 more warm months to go.  Where I live, we will have a solar equator in December and again in March (or so I am told). 

Up in the northern and northeastern Pacific, the cold waters of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) have returned after waffling a bit.  Note that the PDO also means hotter waters in the eastern-northeastern Pacific.

Along the northern eastern coast of North American, we can see a lot of cold water.  This has been going on all year as Greenland's melt water pours out of its melting ice sheet.  I wish I had salinity data for those waters.  If anyone can point me to a site that published such data, that would be great.

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