COSPPac Pacific Weekly Access-S Update - Wednesday 03 2025

Abstract

Ocean Outlook, fortnight to 19 September: • Sea surface temperature (SST) forecasts more than 0.8°C above normal are favoured in the following countries' Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs): southern FSM, eastern Palau, PNG, Solomon Is, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, western Fiji, central Tonga, Niue, central Cook Is., central French Polynesia, and Pitcairn Is. SST anomalies above 1.2°C are favoured in most of PNG, the western and south of Solomon Islands, northern New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and eastern French Polynesia. Elsewhere, SSTs are predicted to be near-normal.