The La Niña of 2006 proved to be short-lived..By JeffMasters

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The La Niña of 2006 proved to be short-lived..By JeffMasters

#1 Postby CHRISTY » Thu May 11, 2006 11:13 am

Hey guys this is from jeff masters weather blog its His take on La nina that is no more stop by and take a look...
Very interesting!

Here's the link...

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

PS! Leave Comments!
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#2 Postby HURAKAN » Thu May 11, 2006 1:02 pm

Good article just a grammatical comment. "The" and "La" means the same, for example:

The girl.

La niña.

So, if you write "The La Niña," you are basically saying, "The The girl."
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#3 Postby caneflyer » Thu May 11, 2006 1:27 pm

Literally true, but...

"La Nina" in this context is a phrase that in its entirety refers to the meteorological/oceanographic event, and is not intended to be translated or taken literally. Consequently, using "a" or "the" in front of it (in English) is entirely proper.
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#4 Postby clfenwi » Thu May 11, 2006 1:37 pm

Echoing what caneflyer said, in English, "La Niña" is a noun, so putting an article in front of it is proper. Of course, if you were translating a sentence to Spanish that began with
"The La Niña...", you would drop the redundant 'la' for the sake of how it would sound.
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#5 Postby rainstorm » Thu May 11, 2006 5:07 pm

lets get back to the meat of the issue. i agree with his analysis
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#6 Postby Aquawind » Thu May 11, 2006 5:57 pm

Yep.. He does a great job. That blog is good stuff to follow.
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#7 Postby benny » Thu May 11, 2006 8:27 pm

For now it is shaping up to look a lot like the La Nina of 95-96... the magnitude anomalies of Nino 3.4 were similar:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/a ... ears.shtml

But the duration was a little different. The Atlantic SST differences between 2006 and 1996 are pretty small if you perform the calculation:
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/Composite
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