Is El Niño coming back this winter?

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.