Category: el nino

El Niño, part II: Global & local effects / MWN Winter Outlook

November 15, 2015

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Erik Proseus

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education, el nino, weather 102, winter outlook

In part 1 of this blog series on El Niño, we examined the basics of ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation), including what exactly it is and how ocean temperatures affect global weather patterns, a little history as to how it was discovered, and how it is measured. In this final installment, we examine the typical…
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El Niño, part I: The basics

November 13, 2015

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Erik Proseus

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education, el nino, weather 102

With words like “Godzilla” and “strongest on record” being thrown around in relation to this winter’s pending El Niño, you might be wondering just what El Niño is and what effects it will have on Mid-South weather. This is the first of a two-part blog series answering those exact questions. In this installment, we’ll answer…
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El Nino ramps up – what it means to Mid-South weather

May 27, 2015

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Erik Proseus

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el nino, seasonal outlook, summer

Climatologists and environmental scientists expected El Nino to appear over the winter of 2014-’15 and, though it never officially did, it appears it was only tardy, not absent. As we head into summer, NOAA has now indicated that a weak but strengthening El Nino is present and could become one of the strongest in quite…
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A pattern shift in the making

January 17, 2010

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Erik Proseus

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climate, el nino, forecast discussion

My apologies for having taken some time off from the blog after the recent Arctic outbreak. I guess I was thawing my fingers. The finger-thawing weather will continue for the foreseeable future, though with some temps in the 60s the past few days, I don’t think there is any thawing left to be done! While…
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It’s beginning to look a lot like… El Nino!

December 1, 2009

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Erik Proseus

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el nino, forecast discussion

Source: NOAA/CPC The weather pattern over the Mid-South and southeastern U.S. is starting to take on a fairly typical “El Niño” look as we approach mid-week. The pattern is marked by progressive low pressure systems that emerge from the Desert Southwest into the western Gulf of Mexico on a fast-moving subtropical jet stream that zips…
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Climate trends, El Nino, and waterfowl

November 23, 2009

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Erik Proseus

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birds, climate, el nino, forecast models, nexrad radar

I have seen several interesting weather items of note in the past couple of days that I thought I would touch on today. Here they are, in decreasing scale order (globally to locally): October Climate StatsWhile the U.S. experienced its wettest, and third coolest, October in recorded history, that didn’t bear out across the rest…
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