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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC update February 8th / 30 day SOI drops to negative
Iceresistance wrote:SOI crash, 30 day is negative again
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A big reversal.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC update February 8th / 30 day SOI index drops to negative
Not surprised given this strong Pacific MJO. PDO warms up, SOI goes down, and dateline WWB.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC update February 8th / 30 day SOI drops to negative
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC update February 8th / 30 day SOI drops to negative
We're in a weird spot right now - a lot of your indexes such as SOI and Nino region SSTs still strongly reflect El Nino (as they should, since they don't lead ENSO at all) and you still get regular WWBs. But looking under the hood you see that it isn't as healthy looking. WWBs are confined way south, the warmest waters are less and less focused on the equator, and as we know a growing cold pool lurks below. We are indeed still in the Nino base state but there are lots of signs now that we will be headed out of it in a few months
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC update February 8th / 30 day SOI drops to negative
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We're in a weird spot right now - a lot of your indexes such as SOI and Nino region SSTs still strongly reflect El Nino (as they should, since they don't lead ENSO at all) and you still get regular WWBs. But looking under the hood you see that it isn't as healthy looking. WWBs are confined way south, the warmest waters are less and less focused on the equator, and as we know a growing cold pool lurks below. We are indeed still in the Nino base state but there are lots of signs now that we will be headed out of it in a few months
Kinda weird talking about a WWB being almost detrimental to El Niño. Wasn't even aware of this until recently.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC update February 8th / 30 day SOI drops to negative
DorkyMcDorkface wrote:NotSparta wrote:
We're in a weird spot right now - a lot of your indexes such as SOI and Nino region SSTs still strongly reflect El Nino (as they should, since they don't lead ENSO at all) and you still get regular WWBs. But looking under the hood you see that it isn't as healthy looking. WWBs are confined way south, the warmest waters are less and less focused on the equator, and as we know a growing cold pool lurks below. We are indeed still in the Nino base state but there are lots of signs now that we will be headed out of it in a few months
Kinda weird talking about a WWB being almost detrimental to El Niño. Wasn't even aware of this until recently.
It's not exactly detrimental, it's just the seasonal cycle means the westerlies mostly don't even exist at the equator anymore during a WWB a lot of the time which makes it hard for an El Nino to persist
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC Febuary update tomorrow
Feb NMME:
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC Febuary update tomorrow
DorkyMcDorkface wrote:Feb NMME:
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https://i.ibb.co/5n1ztgR/nino34-rescaling-ENSMEAN.png
Wait... La Niña by June? Damn.
SPB is obviously still a thing, but that's a bit concerning.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC Febuary update tomorrow / NMME Febuary for ENSO is up
A strong Nina response during summer (MEI <= -1.5 in JJ or JA) tend to suppress Atlantic tropics until around mid August. You don't want the Nina to be too strong during the summer.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC Febuary update tomorrow / NMME Febuary for ENSO is up
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Didn't want to hear that, Cyclone. But the years mentioned did not seem so bad for we folks on the Gulf Coast from south Texas to Florida's big bend. Maybe more storms but not the ones to write home about. Have to check the ENSO history again.
I normally look at ENSO due to home gardening and general guesses about drought or rain.
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Didn't want to hear that, Cyclone. But the years mentioned did not seem so bad for we folks on the Gulf Coast from south Texas to Florida's big bend. Maybe more storms but not the ones to write home about. Have to check the ENSO history again.
I normally look at ENSO due to home gardening and general guesses about drought or rain.
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Re: ENSO: Breaking News= CPC issues La Niña Watch / 79% Chance Neutral for AMJ / 55% Chance La Niña for JJA
Here we go with this breaking news.
CPC adds La Niña Watch. A transition from El Niño to ENSO-neutral is likely by April-June 2024 (79% chance), with increasing odds of La Niña developing in June-August 2024 (55% chance)
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ ... disc.shtml
CPC adds La Niña Watch. A transition from El Niño to ENSO-neutral is likely by April-June 2024 (79% chance), with increasing odds of La Niña developing in June-August 2024 (55% chance)
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ ... disc.shtml
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Re: ENSO: Breaking News= CPC issues La Niña Watch / 79% Chance Neutral for AMJ / 55% Chance La Niña for JJA
ENSO BLOG
Here are excerpts from the folks that did the blog.
Atmospherically, El Niño weakened a bit as well over the last month. Remember, El Niño is an ocean-atmospheric phenomenon. During El Niño, the atmosphere over the tropics—the Walker Circulation—gets all jumbled up. The result in the Pacific is weakened trade winds, an increase in thunderstorm activity near the Dateline, and a reduction in thunderstorms across the Western Pacific (also, usually, across the Amazon). However, in January, the trade winds were closer to average across the equatorial Pacific, and while thunderstorm activity remained a bit elevated near the Dateline, it was instead closer to average across Indonesia in the western Pacific.
Put together, it looks clear that this El Niño event is past its peak. However, it’s important to remember that El Niño’s impacts on global temperature and precipitation can linger through April.
Temperature anomalies at depth in the Pacific ocean from late 2023 to January 2024. Blue colors spread eastward at depth representing below-average temperature. Red areas representing above-average temperature remain closer to the surface across the central/eastern Pacific ocean.
Water temperatures in the top 300 meters (1,000 feet) of the tropical Pacific Ocean compared to the 1991–2020 average in December 2023–January 2024. NOAA Climate.gov animation, based on data from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.
Is that all?
While everything I said above is all fine for the surface, the BIG story is happening underneath the sea surface in the Pacific. Averaged across the entire equatorial Pacific Ocean, ocean temperatures in the upper 300 meters returned to near-average for the first time in almost a year. And it’s clear that cooler-than-average ocean waters are widespread at depth and expanding eastward, even while above-average temperatures persist closer to the surface in the central/eastern Pacific.
Where is this all going?
That’s the million-dollar question. The seasonal prediction models that forecasters look to for guidance are pretty confident in a transition from El Niño to ENSO-neutral sometime during the northern hemisphere spring 2024. Following that, there is a general consensus among the models that La Niña will follow during the summer. Now when it comes to transitions, there is always a bit of uncertainty on the exact timing, as an El Niño can end in a hurry. After all, the current outlook has only a two-season difference between the end of El Niño (79% chance in April-June), and the start of La Niña (55% chance in June-August). And some of the influencers of that transition can be atmospheric patterns that are not forecastable this early on, like the Madden-Julian Oscillation or random weather events.
Here are excerpts from the folks that did the blog.
Atmospherically, El Niño weakened a bit as well over the last month. Remember, El Niño is an ocean-atmospheric phenomenon. During El Niño, the atmosphere over the tropics—the Walker Circulation—gets all jumbled up. The result in the Pacific is weakened trade winds, an increase in thunderstorm activity near the Dateline, and a reduction in thunderstorms across the Western Pacific (also, usually, across the Amazon). However, in January, the trade winds were closer to average across the equatorial Pacific, and while thunderstorm activity remained a bit elevated near the Dateline, it was instead closer to average across Indonesia in the western Pacific.
Put together, it looks clear that this El Niño event is past its peak. However, it’s important to remember that El Niño’s impacts on global temperature and precipitation can linger through April.
Temperature anomalies at depth in the Pacific ocean from late 2023 to January 2024. Blue colors spread eastward at depth representing below-average temperature. Red areas representing above-average temperature remain closer to the surface across the central/eastern Pacific ocean.
Water temperatures in the top 300 meters (1,000 feet) of the tropical Pacific Ocean compared to the 1991–2020 average in December 2023–January 2024. NOAA Climate.gov animation, based on data from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.
Is that all?
While everything I said above is all fine for the surface, the BIG story is happening underneath the sea surface in the Pacific. Averaged across the entire equatorial Pacific Ocean, ocean temperatures in the upper 300 meters returned to near-average for the first time in almost a year. And it’s clear that cooler-than-average ocean waters are widespread at depth and expanding eastward, even while above-average temperatures persist closer to the surface in the central/eastern Pacific.
Where is this all going?
That’s the million-dollar question. The seasonal prediction models that forecasters look to for guidance are pretty confident in a transition from El Niño to ENSO-neutral sometime during the northern hemisphere spring 2024. Following that, there is a general consensus among the models that La Niña will follow during the summer. Now when it comes to transitions, there is always a bit of uncertainty on the exact timing, as an El Niño can end in a hurry. After all, the current outlook has only a two-season difference between the end of El Niño (79% chance in April-June), and the start of La Niña (55% chance in June-August). And some of the influencers of that transition can be atmospheric patterns that are not forecastable this early on, like the Madden-Julian Oscillation or random weather events.
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Re: ENSO: Breaking News= CPC issues La Niña Watch / 79% Chance Neutral for AMJ / 55% Chance La Niña for JJA
Another nuggett from the ENSO Blog.
How common are transitions from El Niño to La Niña?
Going back to 1950, over half of the El Niño events were followed shortly thereafter by a transition to La Niña (after a brief period of time in ENSO-Neutral). So, it would not be at all uncommon to see this sort of potential outcome this year.
Breaking that down even more by looking at similar strong El Niños, five of the eight events since 1950 were followed by a La Niña. And that transition happened rapidly. Two years (1973 and 1998) had only one 3-month period of ENSO-Neutral conditions before switching to La Niña. Two years (1983, 2010) had two 3-month periods of ENSO-Neutral in between. And 2015 had three 3-month periods.
How common are transitions from El Niño to La Niña?
Going back to 1950, over half of the El Niño events were followed shortly thereafter by a transition to La Niña (after a brief period of time in ENSO-Neutral). So, it would not be at all uncommon to see this sort of potential outcome this year.
Breaking that down even more by looking at similar strong El Niños, five of the eight events since 1950 were followed by a La Niña. And that transition happened rapidly. Two years (1973 and 1998) had only one 3-month period of ENSO-Neutral conditions before switching to La Niña. Two years (1983, 2010) had two 3-month periods of ENSO-Neutral in between. And 2015 had three 3-month periods.
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Re: ENSO: Breaking News= CPC issues La Niña Watch / 79% Chance Neutral for AMJ / 55% Chance La Niña for JJA
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Didn't want to hear that, Cyclone. But the years mentioned did not seem so bad for we folks on the Gulf Coast from south Texas to Florida's big bend. Maybe more storms but not the ones to write home about. Have to check the ENSO history again.
I normally look at ENSO due to home gardening and general guesses about drought or rain.
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Well at the very least, 1997-1998 was a big weather-maker further down the Florida peninsula. Dec 1997 produced record December rainfall in Tampa Bay. There was a big response that year in Florida. It was so substantial that I actually remember it delaying construction at my parents home and I was only 5 years old. It was the greatest El Nino turnout regionally that I remember. Maps show wet precipitation anomalies for Dec 1997-Jan 1998 along the gulf coast.
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JetFuel_SE wrote:DorkyMcDorkface wrote:Feb NMME:
https://i.ibb.co/YktGtZr/ezgif-com-animated-gif-maker.gif
https://i.ibb.co/5n1ztgR/nino34-rescaling-ENSMEAN.png
Wait... La Niña by June? Damn.
SPB is obviously still a thing, but that's a bit concerning.
It actually is close to what you would expect from ideal coupling to the seasonal cycle. ENSO events usually are in incipient phase during spring (end of El Nino+loss of positive SSTAs for oncoming Ninas, beginning of positive anomalies for oncoming Ninos), develop during the summer, amplify during fall, and peak during winter. You can see a dramatically rapid collapse in May of positive SSTAs into negative as trade winds return over an ocean that is lacking in equatorial heat. In the weeklies, the May 13 1998 update still had a weak Nino. By June 3, the first La Nina values were observed.
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Re: ENSO: Breaking News= CPC issues La Niña Watch / 79% Chance Neutral for AMJ / 55% Chance La Niña for JJA
cycloneye wrote:Another nuggett from the ENSO Blog.
How common are transitions from El Niño to La Niña?
Going back to 1950, over half of the El Niño events were followed shortly thereafter by a transition to La Niña (after a brief period of time in ENSO-Neutral). So, it would not be at all uncommon to see this sort of potential outcome this year.
Breaking that down even more by looking at similar strong El Niños, five of the eight events since 1950 were followed by a La Niña. And that transition happened rapidly. Two years (1973 and 1998) had only one 3-month period of ENSO-Neutral conditions before switching to La Niña. Two years (1983, 2010) had two 3-month periods of ENSO-Neutral in between. And 2015 had three 3-month periods.
Although ENSO is defined in terms of trimonthlies, the changes are even more dramatically rapid when you look at what happened in the weeklies. It took two weeks to go from Nino-like weeklies (>0.5C) to Nina (<-0.5C) in 1998. IIRC, 2010 and 2016 had similarly rapid transitions to a cool neutral state (though nina took a bit longer, the Nina-qualifying anomalies still emerged during summer). That doesn't mean that the atmosphere adjusts in that length of time, but the cooling at the ocean surface can be extremely quick.
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Re: ENSO: Breaking News= CPC issues La Niña Watch / 79% Chance Neutral for AMJ / 55% Chance La Niña for JJA
Well, after that CPC statement of ENSO with el Niño fading and La NIña comming by Summer, the SOI doesn't care at this point, as it keeps dropping more in negative and is the lowest it has been so far this year.
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Re: ENSO: Breaking News= CPC issues La Niña Watch / 79% Chance Neutral for AMJ / 55% Chance La Niña for JJA
cycloneye wrote:Well, after that CPC statement of ENSO with el Niño fading and La NIña comming by Summer, the SOI doesn't care at this point, as it keeps dropping more in negative and is the lowest it has been so far this year.
https://i.imgur.com/EXSPCNU.jpeg
He replied about this.
https://twitter.com/AndyHazelton/status/1756016053002387655
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