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Incredibly More Unprecedented And Historic Weather! **Weather Warning** Upcoming El Niño Could Be Among the Strongest in Recorded History (Video)
More Unprecedented And Historic Weather! Weather Warning** Upcoming El Niño Could Be Among the Strongest in Recorded History
14 Aug `15
Will the Godzilla El Nino Help Create a Radioactive Biosphere? The last El Nino, five years ago, had a major impact: it triggered monsoons in Southeast Asia, droughts in southern Australia, the Philippines and Ecuador, blizzards in the United States, heatwaves in Brazil and killer floods in Mexico. And this year is supposed to break all records? Stay at the ready folks. Get prepared for the worse!
“One season of above average rain and snow is very unlikely to erase four years of drought.”
Forecasts and models show that El Niño is strengthening. Meteorologist Scott Sutherland wrote on The Weather Network that there is a 90 percent chance that El Niño conditions will persist through winter and an over 80 percent chance that it will still be active next April. Forecasts say El Niño will be significant, “with sea surface temperatures likely reaching at least 1.5oC (2.7oF) above normal in the Central Pacific – the same intensity as the 1986/87 El Niño (which, coincidentally also matches the overall pattern of this year’s El Niño development).”
A “strong” El Niño is identified when the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI), an index tracking the average sea surface temperature anomaly in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean over a three-month period, is above 1.5oC. A “super” El Niño, like the one seen in 1997/98, is associated with an ONI above 2.0oC. The ONI for the latest May-June-July period was recorded as 1.0oC, identifying El Niño conditions present as of “moderate” strength with the peak anomaly model forecast consensus around 2.0oC.
El Nino could be strongest in modern history: US
Read more here: http://phys.org/news/2015-08-el-nino-…
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