Fig 8. Climate variability at coastal areas in front of the breeding lagoons.

mean (January-February) SST anomalies (SSTA) for Bahia Magdalena (BM), San Ignacio Lagoon (SIL) and Ojo de liebre Lagoon (OLL), and the ENSO index (NOI); the NOI index was multiplied by-1 for purposes of illustration; boxed years are reports of gray whale sightings in atypical southern locations [5, 26, 33].