El Nino May Be Back In Southeast Asia Mid-2014
There is a high likelihood of El Nino striking Southeast Asia in the middle of the year, said the United Kingdom Meteorological Office. The weather phenomeno......
The most-severe drought in 17 years is threatening supplies of palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia, the world's biggest producers, and forecasters say an El Nino weather pattern this year may cause even more damage. The countries got less...
Canberra Times 2014-04-30"Even before El Nino arrives, we'll start seeing lower- than-expected production,"
El Nino conditions appear to have formed and will probably continue over winter, according to forecasters in Japan, adding to signs that the event than can parch parts of...Bloomberg 2014-12-10
Agency becomes first major meteorological bureau to declare weather phenomenon which can bring severe droughts to south-east Asia and Australia ...The Guardian 2014-12-10
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Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday there were clear signs El Nino was developing in the eastern Pacific, raising concerns over the potential impact of the weather event on agriculture at time of soaring global food prices. Pigeons cool by a fountain during the heatwave. El Nino is a periodic warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and its arrival comes as fears...MSNBC 2012-09-07
The Pacific Ocean has begun to warm up and its sea surface temperature is rising. That portends the setting in of El Nino later this year. The phenomenon is aided by the recent burst of westerly winds over the far-western Pacific. According to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, this burst is the strongest since 2009, when El Nino developed the last time. In its latest update...The Hindu 2014-03-11
El Nino-like weather may persist in coming months as the Pacific Ocean continues to warm and indicators approach thresholds for the event that brings drought to Asia and heavier-than-usual rains to South America. Sea-surface temperatures have exceeded the thresholds for a number of weeks and the Southern Oscillation Index has generally been negative for the past few months,...Bloomberg 2014-12-23
Forecasters in Australia and New Zealand warned yesterday of the possible onset of an El Nino, reviving concern the weather pattern that can bring drought to parts of Asia may return for the first time since 2010. Tropical Pacific temperatures have exceeded El Nino levels for a month and the Southern Oscillation Index, or SOI, has remained at or near thresholds for three...South China Morning Post 2014-12-02
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday the latest data confirmed its forecast that El Nino was unlikely to cause extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere throughout the summer and into winter. The key US weather forecaster's Climate Prediction Centre said in a monthly report most El Nino indices were near zero throughout April and ocean...Canberra Times 2013-05-09
Tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures indicating the onset of an El Nino have eased over the last two weeks, reducing the chance of the weather event emerging, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said today. However, the bureau warned the risk of an El Nino - which can trigger drought in Australia, Southeast Asia and India and floods in parts of South and North America -...Canberra Times 2012-09-25
The Indian economy could be in for more trouble in the coming days, with weather experts predicting below normal rainfall this year during the south-west monsoon across the country barring the north-east and the eastern parts. The outlook came at the end of a two-day brain storming session, attended by a panel of national and international experts, organised under the aegis of...The Hindu 2014-04-23
El Niño/La Niña-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, is a quasiperiodic climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years. The Southern Oscillation refers to variations in the temperature of the surface of the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean (warming and cooling known as El Niño and La Niña respectively) and in air surface pressure in the tropical western Pacific. The two variations are coupled: the warm oceanic phase, El Niño, accompanies high air surface pressure in the western Pacific, while the cold phase, La Niña, accompanies low air surface pressure in the western Pacific. Mechanisms that cause the oscillation remain under study.
The extremes of this climate pattern's oscillations, El Niño and La Niña, cause extreme weather (such as floods and droughts) in many regions of the world. Developing countries dependent upon agriculture and fishing, particularly those bordering the Pacific Ocean, are the most affected. In popular usage, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation is often called just "El Niño". El Niño is Spanish for "the little boy" and refers to the Christ child, because periodic warming in the Pacific near South America is usually noticed around Christmas.