Our guest blogger explains how our food system is being controlled by ENSO. Also, why La Nina events are particularly troublesome.
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A heatwave of the intensity of the June event in the Pacific Northwest would have been virtually impossible without global warming. But that doesn't mean such events will become common any time soon.
Record-warm temperatures over land combined with a sixth-warmest June for the oceans to make June 2021 the fifth-warmest June since records began in 1880.
June precipitation was average across the country, a balancing out of dryness in the West and wetness in the Lower Mississippi, Eastern Seaboard, and Great Lakes.
Neutral conditions remain across the Pacific but conditions look favorable enough for a return to La Niña this fall/winter that scientists have issued a La Niña watch.
One La Niña winter is often followed by another. El Niño winters seldom double-dip. The ENSO Blog explains why.
Neutral conditions have returned to the tropical Pacific. Our blogger looks ahead to the rest of 2021.
The ENSO forecast favors neutral conditions through the fall, but there's more to it than that!
The extreme heat and dryness in the U.S. West in June have set the stage for more of the same in July.
One of, if not the, worst heat wave in the region’s modern records impacted the Pacific Northwest of the United States and western Canada during late June 2021, not just breaking records but smashing them over an incredibly hot four-day period.