I actually heard the news on the radio today. Cel-e-brate! C'MON!
If memory serves, when the northeast is in a dry/warm pattern, the cooler/wetter air gets stuck down south. I remember some El Nino years in the 80’s with 8 inches of snow or so several times in one winter. In El Nina we would barely break freezing and the bugs were hell the next summer because we never had a deep freeze.
Will El Nino pull South Texas out of the 2 year drought we’re in the middle of? Hope this leads to badly needed rain for this part of Texas - feel free to post any comments.
Here is my very own non-scientific prediction: When we have a really hot summer (as we are now experiencing!), it will be followed by an extremely cold winter.
No, I do not have any facts to substantiate my claim. It’s just my own observations.. and probably totally wrong. ;-) At least I hope I’m wrong.
This could be good news for Florida and other hurricane prone areas. El Nino retards the formation of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Basin.
Global Warming is Bull Sh#t, not cow farts.
Hockey is indoors
Take your "El Nino" and shove it!!!
Not by farts???
HYPOCRACY!!!
I take offense at that!!!
LOL! I'm for it! AND it's funny that it's 'news' that oh, weather patterns affect the weather and not human and animal methane outputs. Something most of us knew.
In the Pacific Northwest, -snip- our winters are another story. El Nino winters are usually associated with warmer and drier than normal conditions.
Yay! And here in PA, mid Atlantic states, our last El Ninos were mild and dry. After the last 3 or 4 winters of snow and cold fests (seemingly more so than usual), I don't mind! ;-)