El Nino may be back causing upcoming extreme weather in 2014

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Tourists: When traveling the globe, be aware of the strong possibility of extreme weather. NOAA’s National Weather Service indicates El Niño may develop as early as summer or fall 2014.

Tourists: When traveling the globe, be aware of the strong possibility of extreme weather. NOAA’s National Weather Service indicates El Niño may develop as early as summer or fall 2014. Typical El Niño impacts in the U.S. include above-average rainfall in the West and suppressed hurricane activity in the East, although neither is guaranteed and largely dependent on El Niño’s strength.

El Niño is a disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system in the Tropical Pacific having important consequences for weather and climate around the globe.

Sea surface temperature in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. El Niño is characterized by unusually warm temperatures and La Niña by unusually cool temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. Anomalies represent deviations from normal temperature values, with unusually warm temperatures shown in red and unusually cold anomalies shown in blue.

An update Thursday from the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization puts the odds of El Nino at 60 percent between June and August, rising to 75-80 percent between October and December. It said the expected warming would come on top of the effects of man-made global warming.

El Nino leads to extreme events and has a pronounced warming effect.

The outlook is for El Nino to reach peak strength during the last quarter of the year and into the first few months of 2015 before dissipating.

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