[Scpg] El Nino

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

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Scientists at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center reported today that El Niño
conditions have developed in the tropical Pacific and are likely to continue
into early 2007. Ocean temperatures increased remarkably in the equatorial
Pacific during the last two weeks. "Currently, weak El Niño conditions exist,
but there is a potential for this event to strengthen into a moderate event by
winter," said Vernon Kousky, NOAA's lead El Niño forecaster. The
development of
weak El Niño conditions helps explain why this Atlantic hurricane season has
been less active than was previously expected. Typical El Niño effects are
likely to develop over North America during the upcoming winter season. Those
include warmer-than-average temperatures over western and central Canada, and
over the western and northern United States. Wetter-than-average conditions
are
likely over portions of the U.S. Gulf Coast and Florida, while
drier-than-average conditions can be expected in the Ohio Valley and the
Pacific Northwest. 

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