El Niño Today
El Niño / La Niña Today's Status & News
Pacific Ocean Today
What does this graphic mean?Pacific Ocean Surface Temperatures
Comparison with Previous El Niños / La Niñas
What does this graphic mean?- Compare current & historical events with the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) from the NCAR/UCAR/Climate Data Guide
- Compare current & historical events | El Niño strength index | Comparison discussion from NOAA ESRL PSD
- Why are there so many El Niño indices? from climate.gov
Current Status
- ENSO: Recent Evolution, Current Status and Predictions (PDF, updated every Monday) from NCEP
- ENSO Blog & Updates from Climate.gov
- Commentary on current El Niño/La Niña from Australian Bureau of Meteorology
- Latest status from Hong Kong Observatory
- WMO El Niño / La Niña Update from the World Meteorological Organization
- ENSO forecasts and ENSO Resources from the International Research Institute (IRI) [above left]
- ENSO SSTA indices - at-a-glance views, from NOAA State of the Ocean Climate
- ENSO Indicators (SST, OLR, SOI, Sea Level Anomalies) from NOAA NCEI
- Upper Ocean Heat Content (realtime graphics and data download) from NOAA PMEL TAO
Latest El Niño News Articles
- NOAA El Niño,La Niña, ENSO news articles
- ABC News El Niño articles
- ABC News La Niña articles
- Washington Post El Niño articles
- New York Times El Niño articles
- National Geographic El Niño/La Niña articles
- NOVA / PBS
- USA Today El Niño resources
- Yahoo El Niño / La Niña news stories
- Bing
Realtime graphics credits, in order of appearance
- Longitude-time plot of UWND, SST, Z20 Anamolies from the NOAA TAO Project Office
- Equatorial SST graphic from the NOAA TAO Project Office
- Global SST Anomaly graphic from NOAA Office of Satellite Product and Operations.
- Historical NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly from the International Research Institute (IRI)