Recent analysis from the Climate Prediction Center has shown that the El Niño is continuing throughout the Pacific basin. The strongest El Niño conditions can be found in the Central Pacific, shown here in the sea surface temperature anomaly data from NOAA satellites. There has also been a reemergence of warming in the Eastern Pacific over the last month. Though intense, the areas in the Central Pacific have been weakening over the last 30 days. Overall, temperatures are around 1 degree Celsius higher than normal in the equatorial Pacific. El Niño conditions are expected to last through the spring of 2010.