COSPPac Pacific Weekly Access-S Update - Wednesday 9 April 2025

Abstract

Ocean Outlook, fortnight to 25 April: • Sea surface temperature (SST) forecasts more than 0.8°C above normal are favoured in the following country EEZs: Palau, northern CNMI, southern Line Is. (Kiribati), most of PNG, western and south Solomon Is., central and southern Vanuatu, western and southern New Caledonia, northern Tonga, Niue, southern A. Samoa, southwest Cook Is., north and parts of south French Polynesia. SST anomalies above 1.2°C are favoured in southern parts of PNG, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and southern French Polynesia. Nauru and western Kiribati are forecasted to have SSTs cooler than -0.4°C. Elsewhere, SSTs are predicted to be near-normal.