El Nino and La Nina
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Since we are headed quickly into an El Nino from the current neutral conditions, I have read a number of posts from meteorologists I trust describing what weather conditions we are likely to see this summer and fall as the El Nino develops. Here are a few you might like to read. Kirk Mellish (Medium)–…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued their latest ENSO outlook for the coming months earlier today. It shows that El Nino is likely to emerge in the May through July period and strengthen throughout the rest of this year, lasting into next winter. There is a chance that it could become a very strong event, although…
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The New York Times published this article last week about how the warming temperature trend across the globe is changing what El Nino looks like. We know that El Nino and La Nina have been natural parts of the atmosphere-ocean climate pattern on Earth for thousands of years and likely much longer. But as the…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center announced today that the latest La Nina is now officially over and has been replaced by neutral conditions, as has been long expected. The ocean conditions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) are now expected to swing rapidly to the opposite phase, El Nino, with warmer than normal sea surface temperatures…
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Those of you who follow ENSO know that we are currently transitioning from La Nina to neutral conditions. A strong El Nino is expected to follow by later this summer and last through next winter, although since it is spring there is still a lot of uncertainty in that forecast. If it does happen, what…
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The Climate Prediction Center issued their monthly update on the ENSO today. The report indicates that while La Nina is still present, it is just barely holding on and is expected to end in the next month, leading to the return of neutral conditions. CPC is predicting a fairly quick swing to El Nino conditions…
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Since we are likely to be switching from the weak La Nina we are currently in to neutral and then El Nino by later this summer, Climate.gov thought it was a good idea to remind us all that La Nina and El Nino have different impacts on spring tornadoes and hailstorms as well as on…