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Department:May 24, 2017Our ENSO blogger sits down with Ken Takahashi, an ENSO forecaster from Peru, to gab about the recent coastal El Niño and what might be coming up next.
Department:May 11, 2017The chance El Niño will develop is about equal to the chance that the tropical Pacific will stay in neutral. What are forecasters looking at this month?
Department:April 13, 2017Neutral conditions are expected to continue in the Pacific with chances increasing for El Nino by the fall. Our blogger fills you in on the latest developments across the Pacific.
Department:March 22, 2017Now that the 2016-2017 winter is over with, it's time to look back and see what happened. Did our winter outlook do well?
Department:March 2, 2017In this installment of our Beyond the Data blog, Carl Schreck talks about how a tropical climate pattern called the MJO left its fingerprints all over California's soaking rains and Boston's recent snowstorm.
Department:February 23, 2017How much can forecasters say about ENSO during the spring? A lot depends on which phase—El Niño versus La Niña— the Pacific seems to be headed toward.
Department:February 2, 2017Just a few days ago, on January 26th, 2017, we saw something in the U.S. climate that we hadn’t seen since March 2011.
Department:November 23, 2016Are sea surface temperatures located north of the equator important for El Niño or La Niña development? Yes! Introducing the Pacific Meridional Mode.
Department:November 18, 2016Drought has broken out across the southeast and southern plains this summer and fall. What got us to this situation, and how do we deal drought, which is unlike many of our weather hazards?
Department:November 2, 2016A broad expanse of 80+ degree water dominated the tropical Pacific last winter. This animation shows how these warm surface waters were eroded by waves of cool water that pulsed across the equator throughout spring and summer.
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