El Niño Explained: Understanding the Forces Shaping 2023-24 Winter …
2023年10月16日 · What is El Niño? El Niño, Spanish for “little boy,” is a climate pattern that involves the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean. As opposed to short-term weather events, climate events like El Niño are longer term environmental conditions that last months or even years.
El Niño & La Niña (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) - NOAA …
2024年11月14日 · El Niño and La Niña are the warm and cool phases of a natural climate pattern across the tropical Pacific known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or “ENSO” for short. The pattern shifts back and forth irregularly every two to seven years, bringing predictable changes in ocean temperature and disrupting the normal wind and rainfall ...
How does El Niño influence winter precipitation over the United …
2023年11月30日 · U.S. winter (Dec-Feb) precipitation compared to the 1981-2010 average for the past 7 strong El Niño events. Details differ, but most show wetter-than-average conditions across some part of the South. NOAA Climate.gov image, based on …
What are El Nino and La Nina? - NOAA's National Ocean Service
El Niño causes the Pacific jet stream to move south and spread further east. During winter, this leads to wetter conditions than usual in the Southern U.S. and warmer and drier conditions in the North. El Niño also has a strong effect on marine life off the Pacific coast.
An El Niño winter is coming. Here’s what that could mean for the US
2023年9月25日 · El Niño typically leads to a milder winter in the North, from the Pacific Northwest to the Rockies, Plains and Midwest. Individual storms can still form and deliver bouts of brutal cold...
How will El Niño affect the U.S. this winter?
2023年12月12日 · Typically in winter during a moderate to strong El Niño, the subtropical branch of the jet stream intensifies across the Sun Belt, giving places from Southern California to Florida higher odds of a wet winter (including an enhanced tornado threat across Florida).
Understanding El Niño - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2016年2月2日 · El Nino has its largest impacts during the winter. In the winter, El Niño typically brings milder weather to the northern parts of the United States and wetter conditions across the southern United States. The opposite of El Niño is La Niña, the cold phase, which also changes weather worldwide.
2023-24 U.S. winter outlook: wetter South, warmer North
2023年10月19日 · This year, El Niño is in place heading into winter for the first time in four years, driving the outlook for warmer-than-average temperatures for the northern tier of the continental United States, according to NOAA’s U.S. Winter Outlook released today by the Climate Prediction Center—a division of the National Weather Service.
NOAA declares the arrival of El Niño - National Weather Service
2023年6月8日 · El Niño’s influence on the U.S. is weak during the summer and more pronounced starting in the late fall through spring. By winter, there is an 84% chance of greater than a moderate strength El Niño, and a 56% chance of a strong El Niño developing.
El Niño Winter: 6 Changes In US This Winter | Weather.com
2023年10月31日 · A cross much of the northern U.S., a stronger El Niño tends to produce a warmer winter. Further beef up your forecast with our detailed, hour-by-hour breakdown for the next 8 days – only ...