El Nino and La Nina
-
The latest ENSO outlook was released by NOAA today. It shows that the current La Nina is expected to continue through the March-May period, then neutral conditions are likely to take over. There is now a hint that we could see La Nina return later in the year. Two years in a row of La…
-
In this blog you often hear stories about how La Nina and El Nino affect the weather and climate of the Southeast and other parts of the United States. But we spend less time talking about how it affects other parts of the world, even though historically some of the strongest effects of the ENSO…
-
A quick look at the temperature and precipitation patterns across the Southeast shows that so far this January, the typical pattern of warm and dry conditions across southern parts of the region have not occurred. In fact, the coolest and wettest conditions have occurred where we would normally expect to be warm and dry. Because…
-
The latest La Nina update from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center shows that the La Nina is likely to continue through winter and into early spring, according to this story in Reuters. While this has not been a very typical La Nina winter so far due to the displacement of the cold air associated with the…
-
With La Nina now firmly in place, producers are starting to think about what that means for crop and fruit production next year. We know that La Ninas tend to bring warmer and drier than normal weather to most of the Southeast, and this one is expected to be fairly strong, so all of the…
-
The North Carolina Climate Office posted their winter outlook earlier this week. It is no surprise that it reflects what we know about the current La Nina. While the signal of La Nina is not as strong in North Carolina as it is in northern Florida and Alabama and Georgia, this year’s strong event should…
-
According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, we have a 100 percent chance of a La Nina through winter, and a better than 90 percent chance through early spring. After that, the probability drops but stays above 50 percent through the March-May period before we go into the typical low probability in summer 2021. This is…
Posted in: El Nino and La Nina