Pedro DiNezio, an atmosphere and ocean scientist at the University of Colorado who studies El Niño and La Niña, explains why and what’s ahead.Forecasters know La Niña has arrived when temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean along the equator west of South America cool byThose temperature fluctuations might seem small, but they can affect the atmosphere in ways that ripple across the planet., named after Sir Gilbert Walker, an English physicist in the early 20th century.
During El Niño, the Walker Circulation shifts eastward, so more storms form off California as warm air rises over the warmer waters of the eastern Pacific. Fiona Martin, NOAA Climate.gov, making these typically dry areas wetter. Conversely, mid-latitude regions that normally would get the storms become drier because storms shift away.– likely by late summer. After a strong El Niño, like the world saw in late 2023 and early 2024, conditions tend to swing fairly quickly to La Niña.
La Niña produces less wind shear, removing a brake on hurricanes. That’s not good news for people living in hurricane-prone regions like Florida. In 2020, during the last La Niña, the Atlantic saw aDoes La Niña Mean Drought Returns To The U.S. Southwest? During La Niña, the jet stream tends to be farther north, causing drier conditions across the U.S. Southwest. NOAA Climate.govThe impacts of El Niño and La Niña are almost a mirror image in the Southern Hemisphere.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: KPBSnews - 🏆 240. / 63 Read more »
Source: KSLcom - 🏆 549. / 51 Read more »
Source: screenrant - 🏆 7. / 94 Read more »
Source: 10News - 🏆 732. / 50 Read more »
Source: Utoday_en - 🏆 295. / 63 Read more »
Source: Crypto_Potato - 🏆 568. / 51 Read more »