El Niño is here, and it’ll be ‘one storm after another like a conveyor belt’ | by LA Times This year’s El Nino will mean “mudslides, heavy rainfall, one storm after another like a conveyor belt.” – Bill Patzert, climatologist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada, CA This story by the LA Times will make you smile. This article leans on Bill Patzert, climatologist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada, CA who says that this […] Weather SnowBrains | November 18, 2015 2 Comments
El Nino 2014 Update for North America from NOAA: El Nino is most likely still on its way to North America in 2014/15 but it may not be as strong as once predicted. NOAA is now favoring this El Nino to be weak-to-moderate. We are currently in an El Nino Watch, which means that “conditions are favorable for the development of El Niño or La Niña conditions within the next six months.” Right now, NOAA is giving El Nino an 80% chance of happening this winter in North America. Below is some very technical speak about where El Nino is right now and what the chances are it will happen in North America this winter. This quote sums up all you really need to know:[…] Weather SnowBrains | July 23, 2014 0 Comments
El Niño 2013 Synopsis: ENSO-neutral is favored into the Northern Hemisphere fall 2013. AUGUST 8th, 2013 UPDATE from LiveWeatherBlogs.com ENSO-neutral conditions persisted during July 2013, as reflected by near-average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) across the central and east-central equatorial Pacific and below-average SSTs in the eastern Pacific (Fig. 1). Consistent with this pattern, weekly Niño-4 and Niño-3.4 values were between -0.5° and 0°C, while Niño-3 and Niño-1+2 indices remained cooler than -0.5°C (Fig. 2). The oceanic heat content (average temperature in the upper 300m of the ocean) anomalies continued to be slightly above […] Weather LiveWeatherBlogs.com | September 11, 2013 3 Comments