{"id":252,"date":"2015-11-24T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2015-11-24T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T18:47:23","slug":"recent-soi-values-suggest-rapid-end-to-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/recent-soi-values-suggest-rapid-end-to-el-nino\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent SOI values suggest rapid end to El Nino"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_253\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Capture7.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-253\" title=\"SOI\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Capture7-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Capture7-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Capture7.png 731w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Current SOI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The SOI measures the difference in surface air pressure between Tahiti and Darwin. Sustained positive SOI values above about +8 indicate a La Ni\u00f1a event while sustained negative values below about \u20138 indicate an El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Positive values indicate enhanced easterly winds over the tropical Pacific which tends to cool sea surface temperatures (La Nina). \u00a0Prolonged negative values indicate reduced easterlies which allow warming or El Nino conditions to develop.<\/p>\n<p>Since October the SOI has reversed from a strong negative signal to mostly positive which suggests that the current El Nino is set to weaken rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Data source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au\/\">https:\/\/www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SOI measures the difference in surface air pressure between Tahiti and Darwin. Sustained positive SOI values above about +8 indicate a La Ni\u00f1a event while sustained negative values below about \u20138 indicate an El Ni\u00f1o. Positive values indicate enhanced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/recent-soi-values-suggest-rapid-end-to-el-nino\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[25,24,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}