El Niño Watch expects a good rainy season for the Northern Hemisphere Winter. Dust off your umbrellas after Christmas, and keep your fingers crossed.

La Niña to persist into winter 2022-23

On: December 9, 2022

Below-average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) persisted in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean during the past month (Fig. 1). All of the latest weekly Niño index values were near -1.0ºC, except for the Niño-1+2 index which was at -0.5ºC (Fig. 2). In November 2022, negative subsurface temperature anomalies weakened (Fig. …continue reading

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NOAA predicts La Niña conditions for the coming winter

By: Shelley Henderson

On: September 12, 2020

In: Government

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center predicts current La Niña conditions in the Southern Pacific will continue through the Northern Hemisphere winter. Generally, a persistent La Niña condition means potentially a colder and stormier winter in extreme northern California and the Pacific Northwest, and warmer and less stormy conditions in the rest …continue reading

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