Will El Nino become La Ninas ?   Could be a longer hotter summer coming up for me.   


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Globally, it can mean an even hotter year coming up and billions of dollars in losses for food crops.

The National Oceanic Atmospheric and Administration issued an official El Nino watch Thursday. An El Nino is a warming of the central Pacific once every few years, from a combination of wind and waves in the tropics. It shakes up climate around the world, changing rain and temperature patterns.

Mike Halpert, acting director of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, says the El Nino warming should develop by this summer, but that there are no guarantees. Although early signs are appearing already a few hundred feet below the ocean surface, meteorologists say an El Nino started to brew in 2012 and then shut down suddenly and unexpectedly.

The flip side of El Nino is called a La Nina, which has a general cooling effect. It has been much more frequent than El Ninos lately, with five La Ninas and two small-to-moderate El Ninos in the past nine years. The last big El Nino was 1997-1998. Neither has appeared since mid-2012. El Ninos are usually strongest from December to April.

Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who wasn't part of NOAA's forecast, agreed that an El Nino is brewing

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El Nino also brings more rain, a lot more rain.
At least the libs can't use the drought as a tool anymore, this is a drought killer.

Quote from: Solar on March 08, 2014, 12:44:21 PM
El Nino also brings more rain, a lot more rain.
At least the libs can't use the drought as a tool anymore, this is a drought killer.

Let's hope most of it is in the valleys of California.   

Quote from: walkstall on March 08, 2014, 02:12:42 PM
Let's hope most of it is in the valleys of California.   

They wouldn't know how to react. They get their water from us in the Sierra, they better hope it's not too warm of an El Nino, or there won't be much of a snow pack, it happened in 1989, nearly flooded the Sacto valley.