EL NIÑO Is Expected To Arrive This Summer | The Warmth Could Be Short Lived NOAA El NINO Press Release: EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION issued by: CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER/NCEP/NWS & The International Research Institute for Climate and Society 11 May 2017 ENSO Alert System Status: Not Active Synopsis: ENSO-neutral and El Niño are nearly equally favored during the Northern Hemisphere summer and fall 2017. ENSO-neutral persisted during April, with near-average […] Weather Chris Wallner | May 14, 2017 0 Comments
Official NOAA El Nino Update for April 2017: Chance of El Nino By Late Summer April 2017 Enso Update: Tropical Pacific Ocean In Conflict Author: NOAA/Anthony Barnston April 13th, 2017 The tropical Pacific Ocean has been giving mixed signals recently, making a forecaster’s job even more difficult! In short, many of the computer models we use are predicting the development of El Nino over the next several months, but current conditions in the tropical Pacific […] Weather Chris Wallner | April 14, 2017 0 Comments
Official NOAA El Nino Update for March 2017: 50% Chance of El Nino By Late Summer March 2017 ENSO update: on the fence Author: NOAA/Emily Becker March 8, 2017 With La Niña in the rear-view mirror, forecasters expect that neutral conditions will continue through the spring. After that, there are increasing chances of El Niño making an appearance, but they’re still not very strong chances—around 50% by the late summer, but not quite at the point […] Industry News WeatherBrains | March 10, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: La Niña & El Niño Explained in Less Than 2 Minutes During normal conditions, trade winds, which blow from east to west, push warm surface waters toward Asia, piling it up in the western Pacific. In some years the trade winds weaken. The warm surface water moves eastward and reduces upwelling of cold water off the coast of South America. Climatologists call this El Niño. Its climate impacts show up mostly […] Weather Sergei Poljak | October 20, 2016 0 Comments
No El Nino & No La Nina… | What Do ENSO Neutral Conditions Mean for California This Winter? NOAA recently canceled its La Nina Watch. NOAA is currently forecasting an ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) Neutral winter (meaning no El Nino nor La Nina). Unfortunately, California is more often than not DRY during ENSO Neutral years. Lake Tahoe just had its driest summer on record… “Odds are becoming more likely that ENSO neutral conditions will prevail this […] WeatherBrains | September 26, 2016 0 Comments
NOAA: Exactly What El Nino Did To The California Drought… This is a guest post from Simon Wang, Utah Climate Center/Dept. Plants, Soils & Climate, Utah State University. Simon specializes in climate dynamics, prediction, and their extremes. This past winter, most water agencies across California were counting on the strong El Niño to produce surplus water, helping to increase groundwater and make up for what’s been pumped out due to […] Weather WeatherBrains | August 5, 2016 0 Comments
NOAA VIDEO: Watch El Nino Switch La Nina | “The Death of El Nino” The Life and Death of El Niño Author: Michelle L’Heureux/NOAA June 23, 2016 Over the last couple of months, we’ve been witnessing a tremendous fall from the peak of one of the strongest El Niño events on record. Sea surface temperatures in the Niño-3.4 region of the east-central equatorial Pacific Ocean have cooled down over three degrees Fahrenheit since January! The […] Weather Guest Author | June 23, 2016 0 Comments
Official NOAA El Nino Update: El Nino is Dead, 75% of La Nina Next Winter If you haven’t heard yet, it’s looking very likely that La Nina will grace us with her presence once again this coming winter. A La Nina Watch is currently in effect. “ENSO-neutral conditions are present and La Niña is favored to develop during the Northern Hemisphere summer 2016, with about a 75% chance of La Niña during the fall and […] Weather WeatherBrains | June 9, 2016 2 Comments