She's Back! La Niña Is Here For The Second Consecutive Year

Capitol Zero ^ | 11-12-2017

[blam]

For the second consecutive time in two years, La Niña (translated from Spanish as “little girl”) is back and she means business. New data from Climate.gov indicates La Niña conditions have formed just in time for winter weather in the Northern Hemisphere.

On Thursday, the Climate Prediction Center confirmed La Niña after analyzing October ocean temperatures cooling along the equatorial eastern and central Pacific Ocean. La Niña is often declared when sea surface temperatures in the region (just stated) decline by 0.5 degrees Celsius

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(Lots of nice charts and graphs at the site.)

[blam]

Last year when my son visited here from LA, we spent two days on Dauphin Island in shorts and T-shirts. Warmer here than in LA at Christmas time.

[fso301]

Does this mean another +60 feet of snow in northern California?

[fso301]

Does this mean another +60 feet of snow in northern California?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Reading the article, it seems to mean it’s going to be a wetter than normal California winter. Or drier. It’s also going to be warmer than normal. Or colder.

[NautiNurse]

Drat! Does not bode well for 2018 Atlantic Hurricane season.

[KarlInOhio]

If the weather will be like last year I approve 100%. Not very cold and I had to shovel once or twice.

[blam]

"Drat! Does not bode well for 2018 Atlantic Hurricane season."

Oh boy!

[Federal46]

I was wondering if anybody knew where to look up what your normal temperature was supposed to be?

[BeauBo]

Although it is officially a La Nina, it is just barely so - not a particularly extreme effect, just on the the La Nina side of the average range.

[Rennes Templar]

“La Niña is likely to affect temperature and precipitation across the United States during the upcoming months (the 3-month seasonal temperature and precipitation outlooks will be updated on Thursday November 16th). The outlooks generally favor above-average temperatures and below-median precipitation across the southern tier of the United States, and below-average temperatures and above-median precipitation across the northern tier of the United States.”

[God luvs America]

thanks for the clarification...

[Techster]

Here is link to a local NWS site I use. Maybe something similar for your location.

http://www.weather.gov/mrx/chaclimate

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Wonder if the local weather chick will freak out like the first time she mentioned an “El Nino”, thirty five years ago.

[tet68]

what your normal temperature was supposed to be?

98.something...

[Techster]

I found this link that works to obtain daily normal for one month at a time for large number of locations.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasets/climate-normals/1981-2010-normals-data

Select search tool > select Daily Normal > select state > select city or location > and select month.

Just select a different month as desired.

[jmacusa]

What ever it will be it will be weather, whether or not.

[BenLurkin]

Well there simply can never be any years which are just normal.

It would throw off the average.

[mad_as_he$$]

Probably but it doesn’t appear as strong or as well formed as last year was. It is early.

[Nifster]

Exactly

[outofsalt]

Cisgender weather terms from the Weather Channel? Surely their must be 57 better ways to identify elemental conditions.
On a less campy note, weatherbell.com says they think it’s going to be cooler on the East coast than the National Weather service is predicting. I like Joe Bastardi’s site for the daily update and Saturday summary videos.