{"id":14445,"date":"2018-05-11T10:57:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14445"},"modified":"2018-05-11T10:57:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:57:31","slug":"la-nina-is-gone-neutral-conditions-should-last-at-least-until-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/05\/la-nina-is-gone-neutral-conditions-should-last-at-least-until-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"La Nina is gone; neutral conditions should last at least until fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the latest NOAA ENSO advisory, La Ni\u00f1a is now gone from the eastern Pacific Ocean and we have returned to neutral conditions. While we are technically in neutral conditions, La Ni\u00f1a-like patterns could continue for a few months as the ocean equilibrates. That may mean drier than normal weather in the Southeast for May and June, although forecasters are watching tropical rainfall move north in the region which could help dry conditions in the next week or so. Neutral conditions are expected to last through fall, with a 50% chance of El Ni\u00f1o by next winter. You can read more using the links below:<\/p>\n

ENSO Diagnostic Discussion<\/em>:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/analysis_monitoring\/enso_advisory\/ensodisc.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

NOAA ENSO blog<\/em>:\u00a0https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/may-2018-enso-update-thar-she-goes<\/a>\u00a0(link currently not working but should be back soon)<\/p>\n

Weather Underground<\/em>:\u00a0https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/cat6\/la-nia-gone-severe-weather-late-spring-mode<\/a><\/p>\n

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Near-neutral conditions across the tropical Pacific were evident in this depiction of seasonally adjusted sea-surface heights for April 24, 2018, as measured by a radar-based altimeter aboard NASA’s Jason-3 satellite. During El Ni\u00f1o, the warmer upper-ocean conditions across the eastern equatorial Pacific lead to higher sea-surface heights and a characteristic large belt of bright red. In the image above, the higher-than-average heights between the equator and California correspond to a strongly positive Pacific Meridional Mode (see discussion below). Image credit: NASA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the latest NOAA ENSO advisory, La Ni\u00f1a is now gone from the eastern Pacific Ocean and we have returned to neutral conditions. While we are technically in neutral conditions, La Ni\u00f1a-like patterns could continue for a few months as the ocean equilibrates. That may mean drier than normal weather in the Southeast for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":14446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-el-nino-and-la-nina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14447,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions\/14447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}