As climatologists continue to watch the eastern Pacific Ocean, cool waters there have provided more fuel to the idea that El Niño is all but gone. Here are three more blog posts which discuss the demise of El Niño and what might come next, from opposite ends of the country.
The State Climate Office of North Carolina posted an article this morning describing the life cycle of the ending strong El Niño and its impacts on North Carolina and other areas of the Southeast.
Cliff Mass of the University of Washington describes the end of the El Niño as seen in the Pacific Northwest and describes what is likely to come next. You can read his article at https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/06/el-nino-is-dead-and-la-nina-has-begun.html.
Keep in mind that NOAA requires about four months of neutral conditions before they call the El Niño officially ended to make sure that short-term variability has not made it appear to have ended before it really did, so additional obits are likely to come in over the next few months as each climate agency reaches its own threshold values. However, their latest blog post makes it pretty clear that El Niño is over. You can read it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/june-enso-discussion-new-neutral.
