Eliot Klienberg is attending the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando this week. If you aren't already following him on Twitter, this would be a good time to do so. He promises tweets throughout the week. In this article, he writes about the El Nino phenomenon. Forecasters are predicting this emergence of warm water in the Pacific. When this happens, it tends to cause conditions to be unfavorable for hurricane development in the Atlantic basin. Click title for link to article.
An El Niño weather pattern appears to be brewing in the Pacific.
That could be very good news for South Florida this hurricane season. Or not.
Historically, this phenomenon of warmer water in the Pacific Ocean, named “the child” in Spanish because it often emerges around Christmas, tends to hinder storm activity in the Atlantic. It occurs on average every two to five years — the last was in 2012 and the last strong one in 2009 — and typically persists about 12 months.
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