El Nino

Swampy

Member
Hey John, My Brother-in law is a meteorologist in Iowa. He told me last week that El Nino (or however you spell it) is COLLAPSING!! Do you see this happening? I loved hearing this and if it's true, it would sure be nice to let all the Negative Nellie's around here know about it. Thanks!!
 

Admin

Administrator
Staff member
I wish I could agree, but "collapsing" is way too strong a word to use at this point. It may have peaked and be in the process of weakening, but is not doing so at a rapid pace...at least not yet. Even if it did collapse, it is so strong, it would probably take at least 45-60 days to complete such a collapse and would be too late to turn around this winter for us.

I still believe that there will be a period of cold and snow this winter, sometime in Jan or Feb. It may only be 2, possibly 3 weeks long and we will all have to make the most of it.

Here is a chart to the sea surface temps in the El Nino Region of the Pacific. The 4 different graphs correspond to the 4 different regions. Region 3.4 is the most important of the 4.

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Swampy

Member
Thanks for the detailed explanation John. You know, after I heard the words "El Nino" and "Collapse" everything else he said was all Blah Blah Blah to me. He probably did try to explain that it would take some time. I seem to remember cracking a beer at that point.
 
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