View the closure status of the Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area and the seasonal (March-August) or annual (January-December) prevailing oceanic environmental conditions from the years 2003 to the present.
Month | El Nino Status | El Nino Forecast | SST | Anomaly | ||
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Mar | Not Active | ENSO-neutral conditions are favored to continue through at least the Northern Hemisphere spring 2017, with increasing chances for El Niño development into the fall. | 2.9 | 1.3 | ||
Apr | Not Active | ENSO-neutral conditions are favored to continue through at least the Northern Hemisphere spring 2017, with increasing chances for El Niño development into the fall. | 12.9 | 1.3 | ||
May | Not Active | ENSO-neutral conditions are favored to continue through at least the Northern Hemisphere spring 2017, with increasing chances for El Niño development into the fall. | 12.3 | 1.3 | ||
Jun | Not Active | ENSO-neutral and El Niño are nearly equally favored during the Northern Hemisphere summer and fall 2017. | 12.3 | 1.3 | ||
Jul | Not Active | ENSO-neutral and El Niño are nearly equally favored during the Northern Hemisphere summer and fall 2017. | 12.3 | 1.3 | ||
Aug | Not Active | ENSO-neutral and El Niño are nearly equally favored during the Northern Hemisphere summer and fall 2017. | 12.3 | 1.9 |
El Nino status and forecasts provided by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.
SST and SST anomaly measurements provided by the GHRSST Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature dataset.
January - December 2017
Temperature Observations To Avoid Loggerhead (TOTAL) values for the Loggerhead Conservation Area. An alert is indicated when indicator values (the timeseries) exceed a threshold of 0.77 (red horizontal line).
Monthly mean sea surface temperature off Southern California. The Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area is located within the black lines and the coast. Use arrows to view the last six months of measurements.
Monthly mean surface temperature anomaly (deviation from the average temperature) off Southern California. The loggerhead conservation area is located within the black lines and the coast. Use arrows to view the last six months of measurements.