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El Nino & La Nina - Fierce Weather Cycles

It's been several years since we had any reference to the El Nino and La Nina weather patterns. However, there is reference recently to a La Nina pattern forming for the spring/summer of 2006.

The "Storm Child" weather cycle: "Together, a strong El Niño and a strong La Niña can pack a climatological one-two punch second only to the change of seasons as a shaper of Earth's weather." -- Michael Glantz, of NOAA's National Climate and Atmospheric Research center in Boulder, Colorado.

El Niño refers to a massive warming off the coastal waters of Peru and Ecuador and the Southern Oscillation to the related atmospheric component of this phenomenon, often abbreviated as ENSO. The ocean warming covers a band from 10 degrees N to 10 degrees S and extends more than 90 degrees of longitude. Typically, the warming starts late in the boreal spring or summer and builds to a peak at the end of the year, with the event usually over by the following summer. It is a quasi-periodic phenomenon with global consequences in the form of flooding, droughts, and other phenomena. (TAMU, Glossary of Oceanography and the Related Geosciences with References)https://www.coaps.fsu.edu/lib/elninolinks/

The tropical Pacific Ocean is beginning to exhibit the characteristics of a developing La Niña condition. Gradual cooling of the central equatorial Pacific is continuing and the area of low sea level (shown in blue) has decreased (cooled) slightly. It is still uncertain, scientists say, that this cold pool will evolve into a long-lasting, strong La Niña situation.

La Nina's effects, which are less understood, include the 1988 Midwest drought and an increased hurricane threat in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. After an El Nino the climate usually returns to normal, not always swinging into the La Nina condition. In the past 20 years there have been only three La Ninas, compared to seven El Ninos.
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This is really interesting information. I have always heard talk of El Nino but never honestly have taken any time to do research on it. la Nina I have never really even heard speak of. I took a little time earlier doing some reseach and found a page with an interesting picture of what El Nino does graphically. There are many more but I liked this picture the best.

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