Weekly ENSO Diagnostics: Ocean part of La Nina weakening.
Fig. 1: The 12-week Nino SSTA observations indicate weakening La Nina. Discussion: The Nino SSTA regions are (now) showing an obvious warming/weakening during late January (Fig. 1). The weakening La Nina signature is likely related to emergence of the convection phase of the Madden Julian oscillation (MJO) near the Dateline in late January. The Nino34…