CCTV America interviews Climate Central Meteorologist Bernadette Woods Placky about the El Nino weather phenomenon and what we can expect looking forward.
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What ingredients go into an El Niño, and why can this climate phenomenon be such a big deal? Meteorologist Bernadette Woods Placky has the answers.
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The El Niño event underway in the Pacific Ocean is impacting temperature and weather patterns around the world. But its effects aren’t confined to the atmosphere: A new study has found that the cyclical climate phenomenon can ratchet up sea levels off the West Coast by almost 8 inches over just a few seasons. The findings have important
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This year’s El Niño is poised to join the ranks of the strongest such events on record, U.S. forecasters said Thursday, with potentially significant impacts for weather across the country this winter. “We’re predicting that this El Niño could be among the strongest El Niños in the historical record dating back to 1950,” Mike Halpert, the deputy
MoreAn El Niño has been trying to form in the Pacific Ocean since March, but hasn’t quite managed to get there yet. As of its last update, forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center gave it a 60-65 percent chance of forming in the November-December period, in time for winter, when the climate phenomenon has its biggest impacts on the U.S.
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