El Nino and La Nina
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Dr. Jeff Masters reported on his Weather Underground blog that the current El Niño set an all-time record for a weekly value last week. You can read the blog post here. Among the impacts that are being seen around the world are drought in Africa and other locations, floods in South America, and a strong…
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I read an interesting article in Bloomberg Businessweek today about the impacts of El Niño on the worldwide price of gold. According to the article, one of the biggest groups of buyers of gold is Indian farmers, who use gold as an investment and as a dowry when their daughters get married. This year the strong…
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The NWS Office in Peachtree City, Georgia has issued this press release on the coming winter conditions and how the strong El Niño is likely to affect snowfall and other extreme weather events. Here is the text of the press release below: While pegged to have the strongest El Niño since 1997-1998…
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If you are looking for simple fact sheets on how El Niño will affect your area or other regions around the country, including US territories, NOAA has collected a series of links to fact sheets at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/regional-el-nino-impacts-outlooks-assessments. There are also some links to other El Niño information at this site.
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After yesterday’s announcement that the Japan Meteorological Agency had determined that according to their data that October was the warmest on record, it should come as no surprise that NOAA has also measured the highest temperature since their records started in 1880 for both October and for the year to date, breaking the previous records…
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Even though the El Niño is still growing towards a new record, climatologists and farmers are starting to look ahead to what the end of El Niño means for production next year. The El Niño is expected to wane starting in spring. In some years it moves to the opposite pattern, called La Niña, and…
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This week the current strong El Niño tied the all-time sea surface temperature record of 2.8 degrees C above the long-term average with 1997, the record-holder for the strongest El Niño. Since the current El Niño still looks like it will grow for another month or two before it starts its inevitable decay, it should…