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"It’s coming. Winds are weakening along the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Heat is
building beneath the ocean surface. By July, most forecast models agree that
the climate system’s biggest player – El Niño – will return for the first time
in nearly four years.
El Niño is one side of the climatic coin called the El Niño-Southern
Oscillation, or ENSO. It’s the heads to La Niña’s tails.
During El Niño, a swath of ocean stretching 6,000 miles (about 10,000
kilometers) westward off the coast of Ecuador warms for months on end,
typically by 2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1 to 2 degrees Celsius). A few
degrees may not seem like much, but in that part of the world, it’s more than
enough to completely reorganize wind, rainfall and temperature patterns all
over the planet.
I’m a climate scientist who studies the oceans. After three years of La Niña,
it’s time to start preparing for what El Niño may have in store."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
