For those who are curious, I think this is the original source of that picture: https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1659690572867850241
More analysis and visualizations of that dataset: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
And this is the source of the temperature measurement: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum-interpolation-sst