Since 1951, there have been 26 El Niño events. “You don’t want flooding, but certainly there are portions of the world that may benefit from the onset of El Niño,” L’Heureux said.ġ983: Huntington Beach Pier was destroyed in a wet season bolstered by El Niño. Some of the wild weather of the past three years is likely to flip the opposite way, scientists said Thursday. West and augmented the Atlantic hurricane season. The world earlier this year got out of an unusually long-lasting and strong La Niña - El Niño’s flip side with cooling - that exacerbated drought in some parts of the U.S. There’s a 56% chance it will be considered strong and a 25% chance it reaches supersized levels, said climate scientist Michelle L’Heureux, head of NOAA’s El Niño/La Niña forecast office.Īn El Niño is a natural occasional warming of part of the Pacific near the equator that shifts weather patterns across the globe, often by moving the airborne paths for storms.
This event - the first El Niño in four years - formed a month or two earlier than most El Niños do. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued an El Niño advisory Thursday morning, declaring the arrival of the climatic condition. An early bird El Niño officially has formed and is likely to be strong, will warp weather worldwide and give an already warming Earth an extra kick of natural heat, meteorologists announced Thursday.
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