La Niña conditions are likely to continue through the northern hemisphere spring, a US government forecaster said.
The La Niña weather pattern, characterized by unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, has a 67% chance of persisting from March to May this year, the US National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said.
The CPC, in its monthly forecast, estimated at 51% the possibility of a transition to neutral conditions of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) during the period from April to June.
ENSO-neutral conditions refer to periods when neither El Niño nor La Niña are present, and usually coincide with the transition between the two weather patterns, according to the center.
The El Niño pattern involves warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific every few years and is the opposite of La Niña.
Earlier this week, Japan’s meteorological office said that the La Niña phenomenon continues and that there is an 80% chance it will prevail until the end of the northern hemisphere winter and an 80% chance that conditions end in boreal spring.
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