From Newsgroup: aus.politics
On Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:18:42 -0000 (UTC)
R Kym Horsell <
kym@sdf.org> wrote:
El Nino marks a period where heat is transferred from the Atlantic
to the Pacific.
WTF?!?!?
You are a bubbling font of DISINFORMATION, peehole stretcher!
AI Overview
No, El Ni|#o does not transfer heat from the Atlantic
Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
How El Ni|#o Works
Internal Pacific shift: El Ni|#o is a climate pattern
contained within the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Wind changes: Trade winds that normally blow from east to west across
the Pacific weaken or reverse direction.
Warm water movement: This change allows warm surface water that has
piled up near Indonesia in the western Pacific to move back eastward
toward the central and eastern Pacific. [
Heat release: The phenomenon redistributes existing heat within the
Pacific basin and releases stored heat from the ocean into the global atmosphere, rather than pulling heat from the Atlantic.
Interaction with the Atlantic:
Atmospheric impact: While El Ni|#o does not
exchange ocean water or heat directly with the Atlantic, it does
influence Atlantic weather.
Wind shear: El Ni|#o increases upper-level
winds (vertical wind shear) over the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic,
which tends to suppress hurricane formation in the Atlantic basin.
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