Mark McGinnis of Fair Skies Consulting posted a recent discussion of the temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean. In his column he pointed out that the ocean temperatures there are right at the threshold level of a La Niña. Of course, as he pointed out, you generally have to have temperatures that are consistently in the La Niña range for 3-4 months (depending on who is doing the analysis) before a La Niña is officially declared. But La Niña-like conditions can affect local climate even before it’s officially here, so we can expect to see impacts from the latest temperature pattern here in the Southeast. You can read Mark’s column at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/la-nina-right-around-corner-mark-mcginnis.
