El Nino Watch

NASA GMAO forecast plumes

Latest monthly NASA GEOS-S2S plume charts for the Nino regions and the IOD.

Forecasts and bulletins

Status key gmao_s2s_plume {release, posted_at, plumes: [{index, title, url}], how_to_read}.

Limits. Images only, monthly.

How to read it

Thick red line = average forecast; dashed lines = individual starts. Above +0.5 = El Nino, above +1.5 = strong. For the IOD, above +0.4 = positive IOD (drier SE Asia).

Why it matters for Koh Samui

A NASA opinion on how long and how strong El Nino stays.

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)