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The 1982–1983 El Niño event was one of the strongest El Niño events since records were kept. It led to droughts in Indonesia and Australia , widespread flooding across the southern United States , lack of snow in the northern United States, and an anomalously warm winter across much of the mid-latitude regions of North America and Eurasia ...
Part of the 1982–83 North American winter and tornadoes and tornado outbreaks of 1983 A blizzard in February 1983, nicknamed the " Megalopolitan Blizzard ", impacted the Mid-Atlantic , Northeast , and New England regions of the United States.
He and others (including Norwegian-American meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes) are generally credited with identifying the El Niño effect. [262] The major 1982–83 El Niño led to an upsurge of interest from the scientific community. The period 1990–95 was unusual in that El Niños have rarely occurred in such rapid succession.
As 1982 came to a close, large areas of eastern Australia lay devastated by a prolonged drought thought to be caused by the El Niño climatic cycle. In many places, rainfall over winter and spring had been as little as half the previous record low [ 17 ] in a record dating back to the 1870s [ 18 ] and severe water restrictions were imposed in ...
Another contributing factor to the low number of storms may have been the decaying 1982–83 El Niño event. The season total of four named storms was the fewest in the satellite era, while the 1983 season was the least active since 1930 , which had only three storms.
El Niño doesn’t have as big of an impact on the Pacific Northwest in the spring and summer, National Weather Service meteorologist Joel Tannenholz previously told the Idaho Statesman.
The 1982–83 Paraguay floods refers to major flooding that primarily affected the Paraná River basin in the La Plata Basin of Paraguay in fall of 1982 and beginning of 1983. The flooding was caused by El Niño and it also affected parts of Brazil , Argentina and Bolivia .
A typical La Niña pattern produces a wetter, cooler winter over the northern U.S., while drier, milder weather takes hold of the South. While there have been important caveats that go against the ...