And while the southern tier of the United States can expect increased wet weather this winter because of El Nino, globally, many countries are going to be adversely affected.
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“We are predicting this El Nio could be among the strongest El Nios in the historical record dating back to 1950”, said Mike Halpert, deputy director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
“This definitely has the potential of being the Godzilla El Nino”, Patzert was quoted in the Los Angeles Times. “At this point there’s no cause for rejoicing that El Nino is here to save the day”.
The PDO is primarily a sea surface temperature phenomenon that oscillates in the Pacific Ocean, usually switching from a warm or positive phase to a cool or negative phase every 20-30 years.
California will need a couple of good water years to make up for the four years of drought.
According to the most recent Drought Monitor from the National Drought Mitigation Center, most of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and western Montana and New Mexico are now in moderate or exceptional drought. That winter temperatures were very mild.
“It could reach or exceed 2 degrees Celsius, a value we have only recorded three times in the last 65 years”, Halpert said on a conference call with reporters. “The one constant with Mother Nature is that she’s always changing”, Jacobsen said.
This El Nino is so strong a NOAA blog unofficially named it the “Bruce Lee” of El Ninos after the late movie action hero.
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While few argue that California needs a wet one, wildfires raging across the state this summer set the stage for flooding and mudslides. Forecasting El Nino is a collaboration of assets from several countries So what is El Nino? It can also subdue the activity of the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean.
