Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Is El Niño coming back this winter?

posted by Barry Parr on Aug 11, 2004 at 01:06 pm in Community
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Jet Propulsion Lab

Warming in the central Pacific (in red), could mean that El Niño is coming this year.

Last Friday, Scientists at the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center declared that warming water in the central equatorial Pacific last month may indicate a 50% chance there could be an El Niño this year.

While coastsiders wouldn’t welcome El Niño, which brings prospects of outages on Devil’s Slide, newspapers in Texas and San Diego are hoping for rainier winter and Southeast Asia worries about a drought.

The National Climate Center in Australia played down the possibility, putting the probability at 30 to 40 percent, while stating that such percentages were a pretty subjective way to think about the possibility.

I’m going to make sure our roof is repaired.

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Half Moon Bay Airport Weather: Wed 3 Dec 2:15pm

This Afternoon: Partly sunny, with a high near 57. NW wind around 6 mph.

Tonight: Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 45. WNW wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Thursday: Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 62. NNE wind between 5 and 8 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47. NW wind between 3 and 9 mph.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 63. ENE wind around 7 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 62.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 60.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 65.

PFC: 2:15pm; AFD: 12:08pm

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