by jadegil6 » Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:20 pm
I read this today online:
The World Meteorological Organization said today that signs have been detected that a periodic warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean is imminent, and will create changes to global weather patterns in the months ahead. This weather change is known as El Nino, and will affect worldwide weather between June and August.
El Ninos occur irregularly every two to seven years, and are associated with warmer temperatures than in other years. They tend to lead to abnormally dry conditions over parts of Australia, the Philippines and Brazil, and to more intense storms in the Gulf of Mexico which borders the southern part of the United States. El Nino has an important warming effect on global temperatures. When combined with human-induced warming from greenhouse gases, El Nino has the potential to cause a dramatic rise in global temperatures.
El Nino usually means wetter than normal for the southern part of the US, too. And the South has been in a drought from California to Texas for the past 2 years, so we really need to have a lot of rain.