NOAA El Nino Update: “What Happened to El Nino??” Is El Nino AWOL? Is El Nino Missing?? It’s been dry this month… really dry… It’s no secret that the storms have basically stopped for the entire month of February. California saw only one storm in February while the rest of the month has been nothing but sun and record temperatures. Yesterday, valley locations in CA saw over 80ºF and […] Weather WeatherBrains | February 25, 2016 1 Comment
Official NOAA August 2015 El Nino Update: Odds Are Good for California NOAA just released their latest El Nino update. They’re calling it Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious, which we think is a good sign. They expect that the current El Nino will peak in late fall/early winter and that it will be one of the strongest El Nino ever recorded. As of August, NOAA and IRI forecasters are predicting this El Niño will peak in the late fall/early winter with 3-month-average sea surface temperatures in the Niño3.4 region near or exceeding 2.0°C (3.6°F) above normal. If this forecast comes true, it will place the 2015 event among the strongest El Niños in the (admittedly short) 1950-2015 historical record. What would this mean for expected impacts in the United States? Weather SnowBrains | August 13, 2015 3 Comments
Official NOAA El Nino Update: Strong El Nino Likely for Winter 2015/16 NOAA is saying that there is an 85% chance that the current El Nino will last into the 2015/16 North American winter. They are now also saying that they favor a “Strong” El Nino for winter 2015/16. “NOAA CPC/IRI forecasters are now very confident that the event will continue through the fall (over 90% chance) and into the winter (~85% chance).” – NOAA “…forecasters currently favor a “strong” event for the fall/early winter.” – NOAA […] Weather SnowBrains | June 12, 2015 2 Comments
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