In this week's ENSO blog, Tom DiLiberto gets all judgy over the 2017-2018 Winter Outlook—using science of course.
You wouldn't know it to look at the snow falling in the Mid-Atlantic, but according to meteorological convention, winter ended in February. In today’s "Beyond the Data" post, we’ll pull some fun regional trivia out of the national climate summary for February/winter. Bonus: there’s at least one lesson about the climate system in each nugget.
La Niña’s imprint on the tropical Pacific is waning. What are ENSO forecasters looking at this month?
How this winter's temperature swings may have been partially driven by the Madden Julian Oscillation or MJO.