In a sane world, this would simply be some weather related news, no big deal. In a climate cult world this would be a call for doom
El Niño is coming back — and could last the rest of the year
El Niño is making its comeback – and making itself at home. National forecasters said on Thursday that the climate pattern system, known for bringing record rainfall in South America, more winter storms in the U.S West and South, and droughts in southern Asia, Indonesia and Australia, is expected to make its official return within a few months and has a strong chance of lasting the rest of the year.
El Niño is a climate pattern that naturally occurs every two to seven years when ocean surface temperatures warm in the eastern Pacific.
And according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it will likely come to fruition again this year, sometime between May and July. This year’s event could be “potentially significant,” forecasters said, due to a “westerly wind event” expected in mid to late May, as well as “above average” heat in the ocean.
There’s an 80% chance the event will at least be moderate and about a 55% this year’s El Niño will be “strong,” NOAA said. There’s also a 90% chance that El Niño will stay in the northern hemisphere throughout the winter.
Realistically, it is a weather pattern, not a climate pattern. But, you know, cultists gotta cult, and the use of the word is meant to elicit fears of anthropogenic climate change.
One of the biggest fuels of El Niño is warmer ocean waters, which can spur hurricanes in the Pacific, NOAA says, while also driving marine species to other areas in search of colder waters. Data from NOAA shows that since about mid-March – well before the beginning of El Niño – daily sea surface temperatures have already hit record numbers, well above temperatures seen in 2016, around the time a “Godzilla” El Niño was unleashed. Monthly average ocean surface temperatures also surpassed what was seen this time in 2016 and 2022, the data shows.
Ocean heat has only been intensifying. In January, researchers said that the seas warmed an amount equal to the energy of five atomic bombs detonating underwater “every second for 24 hours a day for the entire year.” Ocean temperatures last year, researchers said, were “the hottest ever recorded by humans,” increasing by an amount of heat 100 times more than all the electricity generated globally in 2021.
See, if you had been willing to give your money and freedom to government, the seas wouldn’t be so warm and the El Nino wouldn’t be as bad.
Seriously, this is a normal event, but, the Warmists have to make it out like it’s Doom.
Mr Teach either doesn’t understand El Nino or is intentionally misleading people.
El Ninos ARE natural events that are getting more extreme with time.
1998 was the highest recorded, then 2016, 2020… now 2024. Heat stored in the oceans is released to the atmosphere.
Hot weather, hot oceans. Maybe we need to understand this happens and has nothing to do with humans or carbon or witches. I am more concerned with the civil war that is coming, that is caused by humans, Dem/ liberal/ communist humans.
I do not believe the ocean warming is natural
I believe it is supernatural, that God is doing it to punish humans for dinning. Primarily sins of the flesh.