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To relieve drought in California, strong El Nio is needed
2014-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate News: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday said again that El Nio, a warming of temperatures in the Pacific, is 80 percent likely to strike this winter--though how intense it could get is still unclear. That uncertainty leaves a critical question unanswered: Could El Nio bring to America the same heavy rainfall this year that it has in the past? Nowhere is the need for an answer more acute than in California, where extreme drought covers 80 percent of the state and water...
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Still No El Nio; Long Wait Continues
2014-07-10 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The months-long wait for El Nio continues: The latest update from the Climate Prediction Center, issued Thursday, finds that conditions still aren't quite in place to declare a full-blown El Nio, though forecasters still expect one to emerge by the fall. If and when it does, it is expected to impact weather and climate across the world and could push 2014 or 2015 to be the hottest year on record. While the atmospheric characteristics that indicate an El Nio have been evident intermittently,...
El Nio Triggers Drought, Food Crisis in Nicaragua
2014-07-10 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The spectre of famine is haunting Nicaragua. The second poorest country in Latin America, and one of the 10 most vulnerable to climate change in the world, is facing a meteorological phenomenon that threatens its food security. Scientists at the Nicaraguan Institute for Territorial Studies (INETER) say the situation is correlated with the El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a weather cycle that periodically causes drought on the western Pacific seaboard and the centre of the country, in contrast...
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WMO: 80% chance of El Nio by December 2014
2014-06-27 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: It is very likely that an El Nio will take place by the end of the year, the UNs World Meteorological Organisation has said, strengthening scientists predictions that 2014 could be one of the hottest years on record. El Nio, which means little boy in Spanish, is a natural weather event that occurs every two to seven years. It is characterised by unusually warm surface temperatures in the ocean in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. There is a 60% chance that an El Nio will be established...
Australia sees chance of El Nio at 70 percent, some signs ease
2014-06-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday the chance of an El Nino forming over the next few months remains at 70 percent, though the agency said some key indicators associated with the weather pattern had eased in recent weeks. "We still believe an El Nino is likely," Andrew Watkins, Supervisor Climate Prediction at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, said. "The recent observations may suggest a later El Nino and it has perhaps reduced the chance of very strong El Nino like we saw in 1997/1998."...
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