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La Nina weather phenomenon is coming: WMO
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| 3/3/06
| WMO
Posted on 03/03/2006 2:46:39 PM PST by grandpa jones
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said it saw unprecedented signs pointing to a looming La Nina, a phenomenon that originates off the western coast of South America but can disrupt weather patterns in many parts of the globe.
In a press release, the Geneva-based agency said temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific had been between 0.5 and 1.0 C (0.9 and 1.8 F) below normal since the start of the 2006.
"Combined with broader tropical Pacific ocean and atmosphere conditions, this is consistent with the early stages of a basin-wide La Nina event," it said.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lanina; weather
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This typically brings far dryer weather to the southwestern United States, Florida and western Latin America and above-average rainfall to Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
But there can also be a knock-on much further afield, with an increase to monsoon rainfall in South Asia, unusual coolness in tropical West Africa, Southeast Africa, Japan and the Korean peninsula.
To: grandpa jones
I hope this translates to rain for Arizona.
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posted on
03/03/2006 2:50:01 PM PST
by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
To: AZRepublican
Either way, the levees are toast.
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posted on
03/03/2006 2:51:15 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: grandpa jones
Well--I just finished shoveling eight inches of snow off our very long dirveway.....dry sounds good!!!
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posted on
03/03/2006 2:52:40 PM PST
by
sissyjane
(Don't be stuck on stupid!)
To: grandpa jones
Take a look at sea surface temp anomalies off the west coast of South America. They're above normal.
These guys may have it bass-ackwards.
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posted on
03/03/2006 2:54:04 PM PST
by
stboz
To: grandpa jones
Let me be the first:
WE ARE DOOMED!
To: grandpa jones
Bush does it to us again!
To: grandpa jones
Composite plus or minus precipitation for La Ninas...
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:03:30 PM PST
by
socal_parrot
(2006, the year of the parrot!!!)
To: grandpa jones
How does it affect the Northwest,Seattle ??
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:05:06 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( I love Scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch)
To: cmsgop
"How does it affect the Northwest,Seattle ??"It's gonna rain
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:07:17 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: cmsgop
We get wet.
Well, wetter.
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:08:54 PM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: SandyInSeattle
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:12:05 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( I love Scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch)
To: grandpa jones
It has not rained in Phoenix for over 130 days. Winter is usually wet. We get most of our annual 7" in winter.
El Nino? Why not just call it rain? - Hank Hill
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:23:59 PM PST
by
GoldMan
(Never try to rationalize an irrational mind............)
To: grandpa jones
In a press release, the Geneva-based agency said temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific had been between 0.5 and 1.0 C (0.9 and 1.8 F) below normal since the start of the 2006.How can that be? Al Gore has told us that the climate is warming. The WMO must surely be wrong.
To: grandpa jones
Until last week when we got a few drops, hadn't rained in SE NM since late September/early October. Don't need a scientist to tell us La Nina is here.
To: stboz
These guys may have it bass-ackwards.
What you're looking at is ENSO area 1, 2....the area right off South America at the equator; from a climate perspective, it doesn't matter that much (and as you can see, the cold water there has been displaced a bit north for the last couple of weeks.
What climatologists use to define El Nino and La Nina is the Enso 3.4 area..which is the area along the equator in the CENTRAL Pacific, not off South America. And you can see the SSTs there are below normal.
To: grandpa jones
Actually the most important La Nina effect is probably increasing the number and intensity of Atlantic Hurricanes.
To: AZRepublican
I hope this translates to rain for Arizona. Summer rain maybe, but AZ is a desert.
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:31:12 PM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
To: cmsgop
I defer to more experienced Washingtonians for that... I've only been here through three summers.
I think the weather pattern would make us wetter for the summer as well as winder, but I'm not sure.
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posted on
03/03/2006 3:36:51 PM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: AZRepublican
Typically, it brings a longer/heavier monsoon season. I've heard AZ is bone dry- I lived there (in Tucson& Phx) in the 80's .
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