El Nino and La Nina
-
The latest ENSO blog post from NOAA’s Climate.gov provides an excellent discussion of how La Niña causes shifts in temperature and precipitation across the Southeast and other regions of the US and other countries. It describes the shifts in the jet stream associated with the pool of colder-than-normal ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean…
-
While cold conditions have come and gone across a lot of the continental US, southern Florida has largely bypassed the frigid conditions and is experiencing record high temperatures. In fact, according to Brian McNoldy in the Capital Weather Gang, “35 percent of all of our December heat-related records have been set in the past two years,…
-
The Inertia published a news story this week describing a detailed new video of the oceanic and atmospheric circulation in the Pacific Ocean in El Niño and La Niña conditions. Most of you already know that both El Niño and La Niña affect the climate here in the Southeast, especially in winter. If you have…
-
NOAA released their latest update on the current La Niña today. It indicates that La Niña is still occurring in the eastern Pacific Ocean but that it is likely to last for only a few months before going back into neutral conditions. The chance of an El Niño for next winter also seems to be…
-
The rampant wildfires that have been affecting the Southeast over the last month have caused a lot of heartache. Certainly some of the blame for the wildfires can be put on the exceptional drought that is occurring over the region (which may in turn be partly linked to the weak La Niña occurring now), and…
-
Corey Davis of the State Climate Office of North Carolina continues his series of blog posts on weather patterns that might affect our winter conditions in the Southeast in his latest post this morning. La Niña will be one big influence on our upcoming winter, but there are other patterns in play too. You can…
-
Today NOAA put out a La Niña Advisory for conditions in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This advisory replaces the La Niña Watch that has been active on and off for the last few months. This means that colder than normal water temperatures have been present along the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean for long…