Posted on 04/15/2016 7:56:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the midst of an epic El Nino, federal meteorologists say its flip side, La Nina, is around the corner.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center on Thursday reported that the current strong El Nino is weakening but likely to stick around a couple more months. At the same time, NOAA issued a formal watch for a fall arrival of La Nina, saying there is a 70 percent chance for the flip side of El Nino.
"A dry winter next year won't be good, I can assure you of that," Halpert said. What may be truly confusing is this summer's Atlantic hurricane season, Halpert said. At the start of the summer, Earth may still be in the tail end of an El Nino, which often reduces the number of Atlantic hurricanes. But by the time the hurricane season hits its fall peak, it should be a La Nina, which tends to increase the number of storms.
La Nina often means wetter winters in the Pacific Northwest and Ohio Valley and drier in the south, especially Florida, Halpert said. It often means fewer East Coast snowstorms, but a bit colder weather, especially in the Northern Plains, with the Northeast more a wild card, he said. El Nino is the natural warming of parts of the Pacific that alters weather worldwide that occurs every several years and last nearly a year. La Nina, with cooler Pacific waters, lasts a bit longer.
El Nino, La Nina and a neutral condition, neither warm nor cool, together make up what's called the El Nino Southern Oscillation. But don't expect neutral for long. Halpert said computer models are unanimous that the world will zip past neutral and directly into the cooler La Nina.
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We seem to have gotten above average snow here in the Colorado Rockies. Forcast is for two feet more this weekend.
El Niño was a flop, sooooo Plan B.
The Sun along with El Nino and La Nina affect our weather. Not climate change bull crap.
The sky is still falling! From one extreme to another. Just a new slogan.
Yup, that and a few other things, but do not try to tell the Gorebull warming swine that.
In other words, weather will continue.
Yes...the El Nino this year dumped lots of rain here....even wetter next year with Nina should freak out the global weather alarmists
I don’t look forward to a dry summer. Forest fires are a big problem here during dry periods.
“Halpert said computer models are unanimous that the world will zip past neutral and directly into the cooler La Nina.”
Caused by globull warming, of course.
Early spring I each year, I start praying for enough rain in the mountain west to prevent forest fires.
Our forecasters can’t seem to even get the weather forecast for today correct so it always amazes me that they think they can forecast weather for many months out.
Ping
Also, where the jet stream dips and loops.
Oh nos! The weather will change!
What a bunch of malarkey.
Who the hell cares? Just more crap news to stir up attention and raise FUD.
>> it always amazes me that they think they can forecast weather for many months out
... or model the climate. Their “models” turn out to have no predictive power — in other words, they’re not good models.
That’s why they have to scream “CONSENSUS!!! NO MORE DISCUSSION!!! CASE CLOSED!!!” so loudly; they can’t stand on their own science.
We live on the Gulf coast so know that it is probably going to rain somewhere sometime during the day, particularly if it cloudy. So if it raining at your house it probably isn’t raining where you are going.
My son lives two miles from me. He had two inches of rain yesterday, we did not have a drop. Forecasters had predicted 10%. We just always take an umbrella and sunglasses wherever we go - it’s always one or the other.
“Halpert said computer models are unanimous that the world will zip past neutral and directly into the cooler La Nina.”
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Halpert sounds like a “Denier” to me! /sarc
13 inches in the mountains here (OR) yesterday. We’re sending the rest your way.
http://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/reportGenerator/view/customSingleStationReport/daily/406:random:SNTL/-7,0/WTEQ::value,SNWD::value,PREC::value,TOBS::value,TMAX::value,TMIN::value,TAVG::value
Yup. And a lot of that in the form of rain versus the “white lumpy” stuff.
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