El Nino and La Nina
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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…
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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center Outlook is now available on YouTube. It’s about ten minutes long and covers both short and long-term water conditions, including drought, floods, and tropical storms as well as La Niña. You can watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzSZAyOFuw&feature=youtu.be. One of the more interesting things in the outlook was the model…
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The latest 90 day climate outlook was released this week. It shows that above-normal temperatures are likely to continue. Precipitation does not lean one way or the other except along the coast, where above-normal rainfall has the edge. This is most likely due to expected tropical activity in this season with neither an El Niño…
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NOAA released their latest global climate summary for June 2016 today. It shows that the earth was record-setting warm again, for the 14th month in a row. The sea surface temperatures were also record warm. The January-June totals also show a new record for 2016, far surpassing last year’s record warmth. This makes it virtually…
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NOAA’s latest El Niño blog entry came out while I was on vacation. You can read it here. In it they note that we are now in neutral conditions, since El Niño has finally decayed away. But the likelihood is that the ocean will swing to a La Niña pattern in the next few months,…
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Dairy Herd Management has one of the best discussions I have seen about the end of the current El Niño and what is likely to happen with the coming La Niña. It’s written in a general way, not geared to livestock, so crop producers and foresters should read it too. Here’s the link. Unlike El…
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For farmers in India, the rains from the monsoon can make or break their crops for the year. This seasonal onset of the rainy season varies from one place to another and is linked to land-ocean temperature differences between the Indian Ocean and the Indian subcontinent. It is also intimately linked to the El Niño…