Does El Niño mean a bad winter?
Does El Niño mean a bad winter? One thing to note is that temperatures tend to be moderated during strong El Nino winters, owing to the Pacific-dominated flow. On average, strong El Nino winters have less very warm days (highs of 70 F or greater) as well as less very cold days (highs of 32 F or colder) when compared to the long- term normals.
Is El Niño good or bad?
El Niño causes the Pacific jet stream to move south and spread further east. During winter, this leads to wetter conditions than usual in the Southern U.S. and warmer and drier conditions in the North. El Niño also has a strong effect on marine life off the Pacific coast.
Will 2024 be hotter than 2023?
Next year is likely to be even hotter. “We're anticipating that not only is 2023 going to be possibly a record warm year, but we anticipate that 2024 will be warmer still,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
Will 2023 be a hotter year?
El Niño is a natural climate phenomenon characterized by warmer than normal sea surface temperatures (and higher sea levels) in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. The record-setting summer of 2023 continues a long-term trend of warming.