NOAA: “So Is This the Strongest El Niño on Record, or What??” This is a great article by NOAA about wether or not the current is the strongest El Nino on record. NOAA has stated in various places that it is and that it isn’t… NOAA clears things up a bit in this article by saying: maybe. ” It’s hard to say definitively what single El Niño is the strongest, because there are a […] Weather WeatherBrains | February 16, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: The Legendary 1997 El Nino VS. This Year’s El Nino This year’s El Nino is now officially considered a strong El Nino (1.5ºC above average sea surface temps). So far, this is the third strongest El Nino on record behind 1987 and 1997. “The July-September 3-month average sea surface temperature (the ONI) was 1.5°C above normal, third in line behind July-September 1987 (1.6°C) and 1997 (1.7°C).” – NOAA, yesterday WHAT […] Weather WeatherBrains | October 9, 2015 0 Comments
Official NOAA October Strong El Nino Update: Good News for N. California, Bad for N. Rockies NOAA just released their latest El Nino update today. The current El Nino is now officially strong. Here are the highlights from their complex update: In coastal northern California, a strong El Niño year averages about 40 rainy days per winter (December 1st through February 28th), compared to about 26 during a non-El Niño winter. In the northern Rocky Mountains, […] WeatherBrains | October 8, 2015 0 Comments
NOAA: What This Year’s El Nino Means for Colorado NOAA in Denver, Colorado just released a mountain of information about how this year’s Strong El Nino will effect Colorado. Basically, they’re saying that northern part of the state generally gets below average precipitation and above average temperatures while the southern part of the state gets above average precipitation and below average temperatures. SnowBrains | September 25, 2015 0 Comments
NOAA Says “El Nino Will Be Strong” & Answers All Your Questions About El Nino: The only real way to answer this is to throw a bunch of numbers at you. Essentially, it’s “pretty strong.” The three-month, June-August average of sea surface temperatures in the Niño […] Industry News SnowBrains | September 10, 2015 0 Comments
NOAA: The History of El Nino in the USA By this point, most of you have heard that it looks like El Niño is coming, and maybe you’re wondering why you should care. After all, why should it matter if the tropical Pacific Ocean becomes warmer than average? That’s thousands of miles away from the continental United States. Well, it turns out that El Niño often results in changes in the patterns of precipitation and temperature across many parts of the globe, including North America (Ropelewski and Halpert 1987, Halpert and Ropelewski 1992). We’re all wondering what will happen to the USA this winter with the strong El Nino on the way. NOAA breaks it down for us here by showing […] Weather SnowBrains | September 10, 2015 1 Comment
VIDEO: Strong El Nino Should Mean La Nina Next Winter This video is a candid peak into the mind of long range Tahoe forecaster Brian Allegrato’s brain. He drops some great info in this video but our favorite part is when he tells us how these Strong El Nino’s typically convert into Strong La Nina’s the following year. SnowBrains | September 7, 2015 4 Comments
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
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