{"id":28264,"date":"2024-12-12T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=28264"},"modified":"2024-12-12T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:25:12","slug":"no-change-to-la-nina-forecast-from-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/12\/no-change-to-la-nina-forecast-from-last-month\/","title":{"rendered":"No change to La Nina forecast from last month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NOAA released their latest monthly ENSO outlook earlier this week, and it shows almost no change in the likelihood of a La Nina from last month&#8217;s prediction. They expect a weak La Nina to occur any time now and to last for a few months before returning to neutral conditions. The sea surface temperatures in the Eastern Pacific Ocean are running cooler than normal, as expected in a La Nina, but they are not cold enough to pass the threshold from neutral to La Nina conditions. You can read a long discussion of what is going on at NOAA&#8217;s Climate blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/december-2024-enso-update-party-time-excellent\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/december-2024-enso-update-party-time-excellent<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/12\/ENSO-forecast-December-2024-histogram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/12\/ENSO-forecast-December-2024-histogram.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/12\/ENSO-forecast-December-2024-histogram.jpg 620w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/12\/ENSO-forecast-December-2024-histogram-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA released their latest monthly ENSO outlook earlier this week, and it shows almost no change in the likelihood of a La Nina from last month&#8217;s prediction. They expect a weak La Nina to occur any time now and to last for a few months before returning to neutral conditions. The sea surface temperatures in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":28265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-el-nino-and-la-nina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28264","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=28264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28266,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28264\/revisions\/28266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}