Latest CPC (NOAA) Winter 07/08 Forecast

exciting news

Cross your fingers...

And this:

www.accuweather.com/news-blogs.asp?partn...-08-28_22:24&month=8

and this...

And this from way back last spring...

Except I thought La Nina was supposed to bring warm water to the western Pacific. That Accuweather site showed a cool spot. Any climate gurus know what's going on?

El Nino/La Nina Definition

It's all about departures from normal. The anomalies are typically linked to seasonal upwelling of cold water from deep in the ocean. These upwellings are products of ocean currents and their strength and location.

Here is a link to the NWAC spring newsletter that contains an article about El Nino/La Nina and shows a graph of the last 50 years and whether each winter was a strong or moderate El Nino/La Nina or neutral (normal).

Here is a good page with La Nina and PNW weather info.

www.ccb.ucar.edu/lanina/report/mantua.html