The strong freak El Niño weather event, which added a little more heat to some world temperatures already a record, has disappeared. According to federal meteorologists, its cold counterpart, The girlarrive just in time for the peak season of hurricanes in the Atlantic.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Thursday declared the death of the El Niño phenomenon, which is warming parts of the central Pacific. El Niño, although not record-breaking in strength, formed a year ago and has been blamed, along with human-caused climate change and general ocean warming, for about 12 months of heat waves and extreme weather. .
The world is now in a neutral situation with respect to the important natural oscillation of El Niño/Southern Oscillation, which disrupts weather systems around the world.
Neutral is when the weather is approaching long-term averages or normal, something that hasn’t happened as much lately as it used to, he said. Michelle L’Heureux, a NOAA physical scientist who is the lead forecaster for the agency’s ENSO team. But she probably won’t last, she added.
He said there is a 65% chance that La Niña, a cooling of the same parts of the Pacific that often has opposite effects, will form in the July, August and September period. One of the biggest effects of La Niña is that it tends to make the Atlantic hurricane season more active, and that storm season is at its peak in August.
“The likelihood of a La Niña, coupled with record sea surface temperatures, is why the National Hurricane Center is predicting an extraordinary hurricane season.” stated Kathie Dello, North Carolina State Climatologist. “States from Texas to Maine are making preparations for an active year.”
Both El Niño and La Niña create “potential foci” of extreme weather events, but in different places and of different types, L’Heureux explained.
“In winter, La Niña tends to cause drier conditions in the southern United States, and if global warming is added, these drier conditions could intensify into droughts.”L’Heureux explained.
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