Upper ocean warm water layer four times thicker than normal. The normal easterly cold under-current flows cease. The usual abundance of marine wildlife disappears. Kelvin Wave reaches the South American coast, sea surface temperature rises. Record rain and flooding strike Ecuador and northern Peru.
Drought continues in Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea.
More than thirteen times the normal rainfall is recorded in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Fanning and Washington Islands suffer extensive erosion due to rough seas. A rare hurricane causes damage in Hawaii. French Polynesia is devastated by the first of six major tropical cyclones. Seventeen-million birds populating Christmas Islands disappear leaving nestlings for lack of food.