As I work on the seasonal forecast taking us through April, May and into summer, what's striking is the amount of heat energy available to the global atmosphere. Much of this is residual being left over from the heat of 2015, mostly due to the warm ocean temperatures. The slip into La
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World weather impacts of a El Nino flipping to La Nina – what does it mean?
After last years strong El Nino, the long predicted slip into La Nina conditions is now underway. And it will be a rapid descent too according to some models, with the mean of the ensemble forecast now bringing La Nina forward. The chart below shows a crash into La Nina sometime in