{"id":16624,"date":"2019-02-14T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=16624"},"modified":"2019-02-14T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:32:09","slug":"el-nino-returns-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/02\/el-nino-returns-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o returns at last"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been watching for months, and today NOAA announced that El Ni\u00f1o has officially returned to the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The temperature conditions in the ocean have been showing a pattern that we expect in a weak El Ni\u00f1o, but until recently the atmospheric pattern did not match up with what we were seeing in the ocean. It also takes 4 consecutive months of El Ni\u00f1o conditions before NOAA is sure that it is not just monthly variability and declares an official event. We have been seeing weather patterns in the Southeast consistent with El Ni\u00f1o in late fall and most of winter so far, particularly in the wet conditions we have been experiencing in most of the Southeast other than the Florida peninsula. Those conditions are expected to continue for the next few months until El\u00a0Ni\u00f1o fades away later in spring or early summer. There are some signs that we could see a stronger El\u00a0Ni\u00f1o occur next winter, but that is pretty far ahead to put much confidence in the forecast.<\/p>\n

You can read more at Grist<\/em> at\u00a0https:\/\/grist.org\/article\/its-official-el-nino-is-back-now-what\/<\/a>\u00a0or at Associated Press<\/em> here<\/a>. You can also read the official information from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center at\u00a0https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/analysis_monitoring\/enso_advisory\/ensodisc.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We’ve been watching for months, and today NOAA announced that El Ni\u00f1o has officially returned to the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The temperature conditions in the ocean have been showing a pattern that we expect in a weak El Ni\u00f1o, but until recently the atmospheric pattern did not match up with what we were seeing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":16625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16624","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\/16624","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=16624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16627,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions\/16627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}