El Niño is back. Is it to blame for our severe weather woes? - NBCNewsMACH
Yell County Sheriff's Department via AP / APAfter a spring that soaked parts of California and saw destructive tornadoes rip through towns stretching from Texas to Pennsylvania, scientists are paying close attention to how much of theis due to the return of El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern that last drove a series of climate anomalies and extremes four years ago.
“El Niños are the biggest source of changes in weather patterns around the world,” said Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.The last major El Niño occurred from 2015 to 2016, resulting in a record 16 tropical cyclones in the Pacific basin and a global temperature record set in 2015. Last October, climatologists once again detected warm waters in the equatorial Pacific, and in February the federal.
“In the last 12 months, if you look at the U.S. as a whole, it has been the wettest 12-month period on record since 1895,” said David Zierden, the state climatologist of Florida, who is based at Florida State University in Tallahassee. “El Niño didn’t cause all that rainfall, but it certainly contributed.”“In general, it will be drier for a lot of the world, so we’ll likely see more drought,” Trenberth said. “In places like Indonesia and Australia, the risk of wildfire goes up.
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