El Nino Watch

NOAA Coral Reef Watch

NOAA's satellite monitoring of heat stress on coral reefs. The app follows the Gulf of Thailand stations (Samui is in the western Gulf station).

Ocean

Coral Reef Watch uses daily 5 km satellite sea temperatures to estimate how much heat stress reefs are under. For each "virtual station" it gives the SST, the anomaly, the Degree Heating Weeks and a bleaching alert level.

Coral bleaching: when water stays too warm for too long, corals expel the tiny algae living in them and turn white. They can recover if the heat ends soon; long or intense stress kills them.

The product is daily and one day behind.

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ENSO status now

ONI (NOAA CPC)
+1.80 °C, JJA 2026 (previous +1.39 °C)
RONI (NOAA CPC)
+1.36 °C, JJA 2026
Nino 3.4 weekly (NOAA CPC / OISST)
+3.0 °C anomaly, week of 16 Sep 2026 (SST 29.6 °C)