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Sea surface temperature anomalies for April 12, 2023. Yellow, orange and red indicate where water is warmer than historical averages, and green, blue and purple show where water is cooler than ...
El Niño is a phenomenon that occurs when the water near Areas of yellow, orange, red and pink are areas where the water is warmer than the historical average. The warm waters related to El Niño ...
An SUV sits buried by a mudslide on Feb. 5, 2024, in the Beverly Crest area of Los Angeles. El Niño has a strong linkage to a wetter winter in California like what happened this year.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
Across Alaska, El Niño events do not have a correlation towards dry or wet conditions; however, La Niña events lead to drier than normal conditions.During El Niño events, increased precipitation is expected in Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico due to a more southerly, zonal, storm track over the Southwest, leading to increased winter snowpack, but a more subdued summer monsoon ...