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Paul Pastelok, the lead long-range forecaster and senior meteorologist at AccuWeather, said the Pacific Northwest could have active, El Niño-fueled storms later this year, with more "hit or miss ...
Fall has only just begun, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to winter, especially since this one may look drastically different than recent years because of El Niño. An El Niño winter is coming.
But the direction can shift and that is what happened with this year’s El Nino. The quasi-biennial oscillation is now moving east to west and that can affect the polar vortex.
El Niño is a natural climate event caused by the Southern Oscillation, popularly known as El Niño or also in meteorological circles as El Niño-Southern Oscillation or ENSO, [6] through which global warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean results in the development of unusually warm waters between the coast of South America and the ...
El Niño and La Niña affect the global climate and disrupt normal weather patterns, which as a result can lead to intense storms in some places and droughts in others. [6] [7] El Niño events cause short-term (approximately 1 year in length) spikes in global average surface temperature while La Niña events cause short term surface cooling. [8]
The El Nino weather pattern that can cause extreme events such as wildfires and tropical cyclones is forecast to swing back into generally cooler La Nina conditions later this year, the World ...
The current El Niño is now one of the strongest on record, new data shows, catapulting it into rare “super El Niño” territory, but forecasters believe that La Niña is likely to develop in ...
A widespread winter storm will continue to haul snow and ice from parts of the Midwest to the Great Lakes and Northeast into Thursday. This system has been named Winter Storm Iliana by The Weather ...