El Nino

It is time for the ENSO Blog's annual post looking back at how NOAA's Climate Prediction Center's Winter Outlook did. ... southeast and southwestern parts of the country, while the High Plains, parts of the Pacific Northwest, southeastern Alaska, and southern Texas experienced below normal temperatures.

Like El Nino weather patterns, La Nina is related to changes in water temperature in the Pacific Ocean. The complex pattern affects global weather patterns, including decreased rain in some areas. Pike said western Oklahoma is expected to have below-normal precipitation and above-normal temperatures ...

Once in a neutral-phase, climatologists and meteorologists will begin to forecast ahead to see if the Pacific will transition to El Nino, back to La Nina or stay neutral. But how does the Pacific being in La Nina affected our weather here in the Northern Plains? If you were to take a snapshot of the atmosphere ...

There are well-founded reasons to remain on the side of climate alertness. The first is that 2017 was declared by the World Meteorological Organisation as the hottest Non-El Nino year in global history. The year was characterised by severe weather extremes such as floods, hurricanes and heat waves.

The weird thing is we look at the Pacific Ocean and temperatures way way off to the south and west of Oklahoma. But it drives our weather and it drives weather worldwide. We watch the temperatures increasingly because of all the differences that happen. We have phases we call neural, we have El Nino ...

That honor belongs to the infamous El Nino winter of 1997-1998 when the region only saw 0.1 inches of slush. But, so far, with just 3.7 ... According to the National Weather Service, an average D.C. winter features snowfalls that produce an inch or more of snow at least five times. The region expects to see ...

La Nina, the opposite of El Nino, is an oceanic atmospheric phenomenon characterized by low sea temperatures across the equatorial east-central Pacific. "The wet warm ... The administration added that weather will be warm as lawmakers and political advisers meet in the annual two sessions. Blue skies ...

The researchers said that the speed of the acceleration can be affected by geological events such as volcanic eruptions or by climate patterns such as El Nino and La Nina. They used climate models and other data sets to account for the volcanic effects and to determine the El Nino /La Nina effects, ...

Washington: The sea level may rise twice as high by 2100 as previously estimated as a result of climate change, a new NASA study says. ... They used climate models and other data sets to account for the volcanic effects and to determine the El Nino /La Nina effects, ultimately uncovering the underlying ...

Peer-reviewed analyses of temperature trends across the Northern Hemisphere show a connection between climate change and the quicker onset of early spring warmth, overall. However, year-to-year variability still exists due to natural phenomena like El Nino and La Nina, or the Atlantic Oscillation, which ...

The coral reef is shown in Kaneohe Bay in Aug. 2015. Abnormally warm water caused by a powerful El Nino pattern is heating up the Pacific Ocean to the point that coral reefs in the waters off Hawaii have already begun to show signs of coral bleaching. The University of Hawaii at Manoa announced today ...

To be sure, the IMD has not made any inferences on the impact of this weather phenomenon on this year's monsoon. La Nina is associated with the cooling of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean which favourably impacts the four-month long (June to September) south-west monsoon in India, critical to the ...

Billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the US in 2017. Illustration: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These extreme weather events are expensive. Until we manage to cut global carbon pollution, temperatures will continue to rise and climate change consequences will become ...

This year will be the hottest ever that wasn't affected by the El Nino weather event, according to the UN. The prediction is a shock because El Nino has been used to explain rising temperatures and occasionally to suggest that the temperature isn't warming at all. The new finding shows that the climate is in ...

ENSO atmospheric teleconnections influence weather and climate conditions over other parts of the globe. For example, ENSO activity causes anomalous convection which, once it reaches the upper atmosphere, excites the Rossby waves which then move in a Pacific-North American (PNA) pattern and ...