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Oct 23 15 7:52 AM
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Once again, the world’s weather ingredients are being stirred by something called El Niño. Like a chatty person who shifts a party’s energy by strolling from one side of a room to the other, El Niño spreads warm water and huge batches of thunderstorms from west to east across the equatorial Pacific Ocean—a transfer of energy whose effects extend for thousands of miles beyond the tropics. The changes in wind and weather caused by the unusually warm Pacific persist for one or two years. It’s cyclical, in an irregular but somewhat predictable way.
The biggest effects of El Niño occur in the wintertime, when there’s more jet-stream energy to be torqued. In the United States, El Niño tends to smooth out winter temperature differences (cooler in the South, milder in the North) and jack up precipitation contrasts (much wetter across the Sun Belt, drier in the Northwest and Midwest). Though El Niño can lead to devastating drought in Indonesia and Australia, its consequences aren’t all bad. Major hurricanes become less likely in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, and a robust El Niño can help bring thirst-quenching winter rain to California.
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I'll believe it when it happens. I've been waiting on El Niño for years...
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