The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has declared the world has transitioned out of a triple-dip La Niña and has entered an El Niño climate pattern for the first time since 2019.
FILE-Residents paddle through their neighborhood street in Petaluma, California as El Niño storms caused flooding and mudslides in Northern California.
Sea surface temperature anomalies in critical parts of the Pacific Ocean have warmed enough for NOAA to declare anAn El Niño is one of three possible phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and forms when sea surface temperature anomalies reach 0.5 °C or warmer than normal values. NOAA says their latest measurements recorded the anomaly at 0.8 °C above average.
It is the first time the world has plunged into El Niño territory since 2019, and if past events are a telltale sign of what the future has in store, the globalSome experts have dubbed El Niño to be the world’s ultimate "master weather-maker" as its influences impact everything from animal migrations to the amount of billion-dollar disasters reported around the globe.
have already taken the expected event into account for their annual Atlantic basin tropical season outlook. Usually, during an El Niño, the Pacific is home to increased activity while the Atlantic basin sees amplified wind shear and cooler water temperatures, which are counterproductive forDue to the potential for hostile atmospheric conditions, the CSU and NOAA forecast teams are calling for near-average tropical activity in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
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