El Nino Watch

NASA Worldview snapshots

Ready-made satellite pictures of Samui, the Gulf of Thailand, SE Asia haze and the Pacific El Nino.

Data and trust

NASA Worldview can render any GIBS satellite layer as one image for a chosen area and day. Every 6 hours the app builds 5 such images, downloads each one to make sure it really contains data (an empty day is a tiny black picture), and lists only the good ones.

Limits. Polar-orbiting satellites pass once or twice a day; clouds hide the ground in true colour. If a day has no data the previous day is used, and the date says so.

How to read it

Each picture carries its date (usually yesterday, the last complete satellite day) and a link to open the same view in Worldview to zoom and change the day.

Why it matters for Koh Samui

A quick look without opening the map: storms around the island, smoke drifting in from Sumatra/Borneo fires, and the band of warm water along the equator that is El Nino.

Sources

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)