This seems likely to be due to watering landscaping, with
the resulting evaporative cooling.
The high SSTs provide ample moisture to the atmosphere and
the resulting evaporative cooling of the ocean dropped the subsequent SST values down, but meanwhile heavy rains, often record breaking in intensity, occurred nearby to where the winds carried the moisture.
Not exact matches
This
results in a
cooling effect (called
evaporative cooling) that helps to maintain body temperature and
cools the body down when it gets too hot.
They based their
results on a mechanism called «
evaporative buffering,» in which excess warming at the equator causes increased evaporation,
cooling the planet in the same way that perspiration
cools a marathon runner.
I meant «dehumidification», but it is also the case for humidification, unless you're talking an
evaporative cooler, then humidification
results in
cooling.
I understand how things like changing the paint to something more reflective could
result in a
cooling step change, or moving from less windy to more windy location could add
evaporative cooling, and going from a lower to higher altitude, or moving into a seabreeze, and so forth.
Meanwhile lighter winds and decreased
evaporative cooling, and sunny skies in the tropical Atlantic and Indian oceans
result in higher than normal SSTs 3 — 7 months after the peak SSTs in the Niño 3.4 region (Trenberth et al. 2002).
It
results from the large amounts of concrete and asphalt in cities absorbing and holding heat and the minimal amount of vegetation to provide shade and
evaporative cooling.
If CO2 is heating the oceans it should show up in the near surface waters and
result in a shift to greater
evaporative cooling.
These errors were the combined
result of the predip temperature of the canvas bucket,
evaporative cooling of the partially filled canvas bucket after leaving the sea, temperature change of the thermometer if withdrawn for reading, and several unsystematic errors, such as occasional 5 or 10 degrees misreadings.