COSPPac Pacific Weekly Access-S Update - Wednesday 26 March 2025

Abstract

Ocean Outlook, fortnight to 11 April: • Sea surface temperature (SST) forecasts more than 0.8°C above normal are favoured in the following country EEZs: Palau, northern CNMI, western FSM, far northern RMI, southern Line Is. (Kiribati), most of PNG, central and western Solomon Is., most of Vanuatu, northern and central New Caledonia and northern French Polynesia. SST anomalies above 1.2°C are favoured in southern Palau, large parts of PNG, far southeastern French Polynesia and southwestern Pitcairn Is. Elsewhere SSTs are predicted to be near-normal.