COSPPac Pacific Weekly Access-S Update - Wednesday 7 May 2025

Abstract

Ocean Outlook, fortnight to 23 May: • Sea surface temperature (SST) forecasts more than 0.8°C above-normal are favoured in the following country EEZs: northern CNMI, central and eastern PNG, western and southern Solomon Is., Vanuatu, most of New Caledonia, most of Fiji, parts of southern Tonga. SST anomalies above 1.2°C are favoured in far northern CNMI, far eastern New Caledonia, far south-western Vanuatu and far southern Fiji. Elsewhere, SSTs are predicted to be near-normal.