El Nino and La Nina
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The Orlando Sentinel published a sobering article today on the collapse of ecosystems along Florida’s coastline. The story details three separate regions in the state and the crippling impacts caused by chronic pollution, feeble drainage, recent drought and the impacts of El Niño downpours this winter on the health of the estuaries. Impacts also include…
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Clint Thompson of UGA released a story this week (printed here in Growing Georgia) on the impact of the wet conditions caused by El Niño on corn planting across the region. Rain has been plentiful in parts of Georgia this winter due to frequent storms passing through the area dropping rain and snow. Since Georgia…
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Even though climatologists know the general patterns for how El Niño affects climate around the world, each event is unique and the observed patterns don’t always match what we expect. The really warm December across the eastern US this year is an example of how different things can be from the “expected” climate. The latest…
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The latest monthly and seasonal climate outlooks were released by the Climate Prediction Center this week. They show that warm temperatures in the upper Midwest are likely to continue for the next few months while wet conditions in the Southeast are also likely to continue; both are patterns that are strongly impacted by El Niño…
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NOAA has published a new update and outlook for the current El Niño and what is likely to happen next summer. You can view it here.
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A few months ago I shared a photo of pink flowers filling the Atacama Desert in Chile, a rare event caused by unusual rains in the region most likely linked to El Niño. Today you might enjoy a video of the wildflowers that are blooming in Death Valley due to the El Niño rains that…
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El Niño has been strongly affecting the climate of the Southeast for the past few months, leading to our current wet conditions. While temperatures in December were much warmer than expected for an El Niño winter, since then the Southeast has cooled down to more normal values. Cloudiness this year has also been an issue…