Posted on 06/23/2010 1:17:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
NASA says new images from its Jason-2 oceanography satellite shows the tropical Pacific has switched from El Nino warm conditions to La Nina cool conditions.
"The central equatorial Pacific Ocean could stay colder than normal into summer and beyond," said oceanographer and climatologist Bill Patzert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "That's because sea level is already about 4 inches below normal, creating a significant deficit of the heat stored in the upper ocean. The next few months will reveal if the current cooling trend will eventually evolve into a long-lasting La Nina situation."
Patzert said a La Nina is essentially the opposite of an El Nino and is associated with less atmospheric moisture, resulting in less rain along the coasts of North and South America. La Ninas also tend to increase the number of tropical storms in the Atlantic.
"For the American Southwest, La Ninas usually bring a dry winter, not good news for a region that has experienced normal rain and snowpack only once in the past five winters," Patzert said.
More information on El Nino, La Nina and Jason-2 is available at http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov.
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H/T to poster at the Oil Drum....not sure what impact this has on GOM weather...hurricanes.
OMG, the oceans are receding. We are not worthy...we are not worthy!/s
As an Oregonian who hates hot weather, I say WOOT!
I thought the oceans were rising by 0.049mm per year and it has dropped by 4 inches recently?
“That’s because sea level is already about 4 inches below normal,”
Huh? Calling Al Gore and all the global warming alarmists. Does this mean the ice pack is growing around the world. Where has the 4 inches of sea level gone?
Less wind shear in the upper atmosphere over the Caribbean out across the Atlantic to Africa. Less wind shear means hurricanes can form more easily and not be destroyed by opposing upper atmosphere winds.
Such a big ocean, so many contradictory factoids.
Between La Ninya and the disappearance of sun-spots, it’s looking real bad for the “warmists”. When will the real ridicule commence??
Save the world — whitewash the Andes
The World Bank has awarded a Peruvian inventor $200,000 to paint rocks white. They hope if they make them the right colour the glacier will come back…
Does this mean we will have an early fall and lots of snow this winter cause I can’t take these 100 degree temps much longer!!!
Uh-Roh !!
That's the way it works, the higher it rises, the further it drops!
There have been some thoughts that a good hurricane would clean up some of the oil spill in the marshes...
To the hundreds of water stations along the border! The lower the ocean, the more concentrated the oil spills are and more damage is caused. Bring on global warming!
O, God Thy Sea Is So Great And My Boat Is So Small
- Prayer of the Breton fisherman
Seen this?
Looks like that right most track might impact the armada over the oil spill area....
The deep oceans drive the atmosphere
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The importance of the ocean conveyor belt
Also:
“As an Oregonian who hates hot weather, I say WOOT!”
I’d like it just a LITTLE warmer, please. 10 to 15 degrees below normal is...well...it’s just not summer!
Oh, boy. Everyone here still remembers the winter before last. I picked up on that La Nina forecast last week. Better get the hay in early. And reconcile myself to having to shovel off the stable roof.
The good news is that it keeps the riffraff out.
Their is a 70% chance this won’t develop. Keep you fingers crossed.
Global Average Sea Surface Temperatures Continue their Plunge
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2010/06/global-average-sea-surface-temperatures-continue-their-plunge/
107 index here
Something to keep an eye on.
Getting the hay early is probably a good idea. I hope you have enough heat units to grow as much as you need in time. The local ag reports are not very positive on that account.
I just have a driveway, sidewalk and front step to shovel. Nowhere near what my neighbors face. They NEED gas powered snow blowers.
Ruh Roh...
Not again...
Armada of vessels over the Wild Well
Can skip olberman by going to 1:40
Also will see the rigs drilling the Relief wells.
I’ll bump those graphs. Very illustrative.
bttt
Probably now, directed at anyone who spells "La Ninya" like that.
We should be OK. We don’t grow our own, but we’ve contracted for 10 tons at a decent price. For our place, we need and use a tractor. When it got really bad last 07-08, we had to call in a guy with a five-yard loader a few times just to make places to shove more snow.
Shoveled three feet off the barn/stable roof that season.
RE: your question....
Uh this experiment has never been done before so we don't know what the Hurrican would do for the oil Spill....but we may find out.
This would fall right in line with the possible record hurricane season predicted for the Atlantic.
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The rate at which the Nino34 SSTs are falling is particularly striking, as seen in this plot of the SST change rate for that region:
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I'll bet Spencer has something up on Watt's Up With That....
Will link if I post anything....Implications of what an El Nina would mean likely will get heavy discussion there.
Those relief wells are ahead of schedule, that is good news.
OK, NASA is going to need to get their story straight. Are the oceans rising due to glacier melting or not?
Color me skeptical. Where all the watah at???
Is it hiding in the melting glaciers? Or are the glaciers re-freezing?
Or is the missing water hanging in the atmosphere, unable to condense or crystalize, due to lack of funding?
Or is this just another chapter in the ongoing climate change fraud?
There was no other choice. How do you get an “enye” in HTML???? El Nino just doesn’t look right either.
I’ll bet a Dollar (US) that the guy is using white lead paint.
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