El Nino Watch

Places: sea state near the coast

Wave height and sea surface temperature at the sea cell nearest to each place (Open-Meteo marine model). Inland places have none.

Ocean

For each place on the Places page the app asks the Open-Meteo marine model for the nearest sea grid cell and keeps its wave height (m) and sea surface temperature (°C), recent days and forecast. Places far from the sea (Gorokhovets, for example) get no sea cell and are shown as "inland".

The distance to the chosen cell is a rough indication: the model grid is coarse (about 5-25 km), so a sheltered bay can be calmer than its cell.

How to read it

Waves below 1.25 m are moderate; 2 m and more stop small boats and fast ferries in the Gulf of Thailand; 3 m and more usually stop the car ferries. Values after today are forecasts.

Why it matters for Koh Samui

For an island (Maenam) the sea decides whether ferries and supplies run; on the mainland it matters for coastal flooding and fishing only.

Sources

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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)