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Following the El Nino event in 1997 – 1998, the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory attributes the first large-scale coral bleaching event to the warming waters. [169] Most critically, global mass bleaching events were recorded in 1997-98 and 2015–16, when around 75-99% losses of live coral were registered across the world.
The relationship between El Niño and California rainfall has been described as "fragile", as only the "persistent El Niño" leads to consistently higher rainfall in the state, while the other flavors of ENSO have mixed effects at best. [14] Historically, El Niño was not understood to affect U.S. weather patterns until Christensen et al. (1981 ...
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 patterns generally affect winters more than summers in the U.S. According to NOAA, a typical El Niño winter would produce a warmer, dryer winter season for most states in the mid ...
Strong El Niños have recently been observed from 1997 into 1998 and from 2015 into 2016. The increased chance for El Niño comes after La Niña conditions were present for nearly three straight ...
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.
6 January: A study published in Scientific Reports comparing projected heat-related deaths from climate change with COVID-19 mortality rates across 38 global cities found that in half, annual heat-related deaths would likely exceed COVID-19 death rates within 10 years if global temperatures rise by 3.0 °C above pre-industrial levels.
El Niño and La Niña greatly affect weather conditions worldwide. The last El Niño was in 2018-2019. ... The best air purifiers of 2025. AOL. 15 of the coziest winter sweaters you can buy for ...