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El Niño Makes a Comeback
NOAA ^
Posted on 09/13/2006 11:52:03 AM PDT by nwctwx
Scientists at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center reported today that El Niño conditions have developed in the tropical Pacific and are likely to continue into early 2007. Ocean temperatures increased remarkably in the equatorial Pacific during the last two weeks. "Currently, weak El Niño conditions exist, but there is a potential for this event to strengthen into a moderate event by winter," said Vernon Kousky, NOAA's lead El Niño forecaster.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: weather
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:52:04 AM PDT
by
nwctwx
To: dirtboy; NautiNurse; Howlin; Dog Gone; raygun
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:52:33 AM PDT
by
nwctwx
(Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
To: nwctwx
AAAAAAAHHHHHH! WE'RE DOOOOOOMED!!
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:53:52 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: nwctwx
Makes for great sailing and fishing out here. Thanks mother nature.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:54:42 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: nwctwx
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:54:49 AM PDT
by
GQuagmire
To: theDentist
Could be the final nail in this hurricane season's threats to the east coast.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:55:36 AM PDT
by
nwctwx
(Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
To: nwctwx
This is very good news for Texas - Thank God for the rain !!!
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:55:43 AM PDT
by
LM_Guy
To: nwctwx
If I am not mistaken, El Nino could end the drought in Texas...
please please please please let it be true!! We REALLY need the rain here.
8
posted on
09/13/2006 11:56:06 AM PDT
by
dandelion
To: dandelion
Looking forward to having water in my ponds this year. This is really good news.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:57:07 AM PDT
by
TexanToTheCore
(This space for hire...)
To: nwctwx
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:57:26 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: TexanToTheCore; dandelion; LM_Guy
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:58:29 AM PDT
by
nwctwx
(Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
To: nwctwx
El Niño Makes a Comeback
Of course it does - its an election year. Apparently El Nino brings the homeless with it, as they're sure to be making an appearance in the next couple of months.
To: dandelion
My part of state is desperate for rain too. Ranchers are selling off their herds and the roads are even developing cracks and splits. Maybe this will be our salvation.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:58:52 AM PDT
by
McLynnan
To: nwctwx
Is it too much to ask for some snow in the Midwest this winter? [frustrated skier]
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:59:40 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: nwctwx
ooh good. el nino makes winter weather much nicer up in MI.
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:02:04 PM PDT
by
absolootezer0
("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
To: dandelion
Speak for yourself. I've had more than enough rain in El Paso. The FAA is starting to require pilots licenses for the mosquitos over here.
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:02:58 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: nwctwx
From the University of Illinois website:
Interaction with El Niño
how hurricane frequency may be affected
Researchers continue to investigate possible interactions between hurricane frequency and El Niño. El Niño is a phenomenon where ocean surface temperatures become warmer than normal in the equatorial Pacific. (The chart below shows the anomaly associated with the most recent El Niño in 1997-1998.) In general, warm El Niño events are characterized by more tropical storms and hurricanes in the eastern Pacific and a decrease in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:03:52 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: nwctwx
Doesn't the Northeast benefit from this, as in less snow, cold and other winter nasties? Sure, we might have some water problems down the road, but what the heck.....
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:04:05 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.)
To: nwctwx
Can we afford it?
The fortunes of the media depend on crises, how may they survive?
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:05:08 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: LM_Guy
A warmer winter and rain, I love El Nino.
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