{"id":7184,"date":"2016-05-27T08:07:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2016-05-27T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:07:10","slug":"australia-el-nino-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/australia-el-nino-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia: El Ni\u00f1o is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Bureau of Meteorology was the first government agency to announce the arrival of the strong El Ni\u00f1o which has affected global climate this past winter. \u00a0Now they have declared that the El Ni\u00f1o is over due to their observations of declining ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, where the signal is strongest. \u00a0In the next few weeks this declaration is likely to be echoed by other agencies like NOAA, once their equivalent data come in and are evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s next? \u00a0Neutral conditions are expected to last the next few months before the oceans swing to the opposite phase, La Ni\u00f1a, later this summer. \u00a0Neutral conditions generally come with a higher chance of tropical storms and a more active season in the Atlantic (less active in the eastern Pacific). \u00a0We are also likely to see warmer and drier than normal conditions late in this year and on into winter across the Southeast.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about it at the Sydney Morning Herald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/weather\/el-nino-bows-out-after-driving-year-of-record-heat-as-la-nina-lurks-in-the-wings-20160524-gp2l21.html#ixzz49naZOJ43\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4020\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/daytona-beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4020\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/daytona-beach-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Yinan Chen \/ Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/daytona-beach-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/daytona-beach-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/daytona-beach.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Yinan Chen \/ Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Bureau of Meteorology was the first government agency to announce the arrival of the strong El Ni\u00f1o which has affected global climate this past winter. \u00a0Now they have declared that the El Ni\u00f1o is over due to their observations of declining ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, where the signal is strongest. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7184","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\/7184","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=7184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7185,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions\/7185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}