El Nino and La Nina
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In today’s somewhat surprising climate news, NOAA announced that they are canceling the La Niña watch that has been in place for several months. While colder than normal conditions have been seen in the Eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator for a while, they have not been strong enough for long enough to constitute an…
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In 1992 on August 24, Hurricane Andrew made landfall just south of downtown Miami as a major hurricane, causing incredible devastation across the south Florida peninsula before it emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on its way to a second landfall in Louisiana. My husband and I visited Miami ten months after Andrew hit and…
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While we’ve been watching the drought in the Southeast, many other areas of the country are also experiencing drought. NOAA published a country-wide overview of the drought in these regions at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/drought-building-places-other-california earlier this month. NOAA also provided an update on the current neutral conditions and the likely transition into La Niña in their ENSO blog at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/august-2016-enso-update-wavy-gravy. The…
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Brad Haire of the Southeast Farm Press‘ blog interviewed me this week on the status of La Niña and what we might expect to see this fall and winter if La Niña develops as expected. Currently NOAA gives it a 60 percent chance of happening in the next few months. You can read the article here.
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If you’re tired of hot summer weather, you might enjoy a chance to think about cool winters. North Georgia Weather published a blog article on the relationship between ENSO phase and the likelihood of getting a cold winter in the Southeast back in September 2015. You can read it at https://www.northgeorgiawx.com/weather-blog/category/el-nino. The statistics show that about…
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The water temperature in the Atlantic Ocean is nice and warm, well above the long-term average. But in spite of the warm water, the tropics have been very slow to start producing any tropical storms this year after an early start to the season. In part this is due to the presence of Saharan dust…
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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…