{"id":29776,"date":"2026-03-12T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29776"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:31:18","slug":"el-nino-and-la-nina-affect-spring-tornadoes-and-hailstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/03\/el-nino-and-la-nina-affect-spring-tornadoes-and-hailstorms\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a affect spring tornadoes and hailstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since we are likely to be switching from the weak La Nina we are currently in to neutral and then El Nino by later this summer, Climate.gov thought it was a good idea to remind us all that La Nina and El Nino have different impacts on spring tornadoes and hailstorms as well as on the Atlantic tropical season. In the Southeast, generally the southern parts of the region experience fewer severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in La Nina years than they do in El Nino years. The northern part of the region is just the opposite, with more severe storms in La Nina springs and fewer in El Nino springs. Here is a link to their explainer from 2015: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/el-ni%C3%B1o-and-la-ni%C3%B1a-affect-spring-tornadoes-and-hailstorms<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since we are likely to be switching from the weak La Nina we are currently in to neutral and then El Nino by later this summer, Climate.gov thought it was a good idea to remind us all that La Nina and El Nino have different impacts on spring tornadoes and hailstorms as well as on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-el-nino-and-la-nina","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29776","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=29776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29777,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29776\/revisions\/29777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}