If It Looks like an El Nino, and Feels Like an El Nino…

,,,maybe it is an El Nino. After an unexpected and totally welcome 6.59 inches a couple of weeks ago, the air has been clear, soft, windless and warm…we hit a 97 a week ago, and yesterday 84.

The data also look convincing:

Here's a graph of warmth spreading along the equator across the Pacific, from a NOAA site:

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And here's a suite of models, all of which show an El Nino/Southern Oscillation developing:

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Okay, I'm convinced. Time to fix the roof and clear out the streambed…

Published by Kit Stolz

I'm a freelance reporter and writer based in Ventura County.

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