{"id":3573,"date":"2015-06-23T09:50:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2015-06-23T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T14:31:55","slug":"whats-the-difference-in-impacts-between-a-strong-and-a-weak-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/06\/whats-the-difference-in-impacts-between-a-strong-and-a-weak-el-nino\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the difference in impacts between a strong and a weak El Nino?"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOAA is now predicting a 90 percent chance of a strong El Nino lasting into the fall and most likely through the winter. \u00a0What does that mean for impacts across the country? \u00a0Cliff Mass has an excellent blog posting on this subject at\u00a0https:\/\/cliffmass.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/a-strong-el-nino-develops-what-does.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even though his blog is directed towards the Pacific Northwest, you can get a good idea of the differences by looking at his national maps of temperature and precipitation anomalies, as well as a good description of the current status of El Nino. \u00a0For the Southeast, a strong El Nino is likely to bring wet and cool conditions to southern Alabama and Georgia and all of Florida this coming winter. \u00a0A very strong El Nino will make these anomalies even more likely. \u00a0A very strong El Nino is also likely to make the upper Midwest, Northeast and Pacific Northwest warmer than usual this winter. \u00a0My friends in Wisconsin are likely to see a very short ice-fishing season this year! \u00a0Fortunately for California farmers, a very strong El Nino means wet conditions for next winter, which could bring needed relief from the multi-year drought, although it is also likely to bring flooding there.<\/p>\n

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All El Ninos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Strong El Ninos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Very strong El Ninos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOAA is now predicting a 90 percent chance of a strong El Nino lasting into the fall and most likely through the winter. \u00a0What does that mean for impacts across the country? \u00a0Cliff Mass has an excellent blog posting on this subject at\u00a0https:\/\/cliffmass.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/a-strong-el-nino-develops-what-does.html. Even though his blog is directed towards the Pacific Northwest, you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","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=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}