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The timing of La Niña's arrival may coincide with the peak of the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season. "A return to La Niña conditions quickly over the summer could result in an active tropical ...
Though hurricanes are rarely a direct threat to Pennsylvania, El Niño generally favors stronger hurricane activity in the central and eastern Pacific basins, while suppressing activity in the ...
It turned out hurricane season didn’t need La Niña in order to deliver devastating impacts anyway. The delay likely ties back to global ocean temperatures, which have been far above average for ...
Tropical cyclones normally threaten the states during the summer and fall, with their main impact being rainfall. [3] Although Hurricane Agnes was barely a hurricane at landfall in Florida, its major impact was over the Mid-Atlantic region, where Agnes combined with a non-tropical low to produce widespread rains of 6 inches (150 mm) to 12 inches (300 mm) with local amounts up to 19 inches (480 ...
The 2020–2023 La Niña event was a rare three-year, triple-dip La Niña. [1] The impact of the event led to numerous natural disasters that were either sparked or fueled by La Niña. La Niña refers to the reduction in the temperature of the ocean surface across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, accompanied by notable changes in the ...
There is a pronounced rainy season from April to November across the commonwealth, encompassing the annual hurricane season. Due to the Commonwealth's topography, rainfall varies greatly across the archipelago. Pico del Este averages 171.09 inches (4,346 mm) of rainfall yearly while Magueyes Island averages only 29.32 inches (745 mm) a year.
Thursday’s ENSO forecast came out the same day as NOAA’s updated hurricane prediction, which continues to call for a highly active season with 17 to 24 named storms, including eight to 13 ...
La Niña happens when Pacific waters cool, moving the tropical thunderstorms so that the wind shear in the Atlantic wanes during hurricane season.