Intriguing weather in 2018
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“It appears La Niña is on its last legs,” noted Mike Halpert, director of the NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center, in an online video accompanying the release. Although NOAA’s La Niña Advisory was continued in the agency’s monthly diagnostic discussion on March 8, the oceanic and atmospheric fingerprints of La Niña are quickly fading. The decline has been goosed in recent weeks by a strong Madden-Julian Oscillation in the equatorial Pacific, where upper-level winds at the 200-millibar level are now mostly from the west and subsurface waters are warming.
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Hum..........Nantucket has had 3 Nor' Easters in the last 3 weeks with another one allegedly on the way Tuesday.
Stay in SBH in september...))
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Many of my fall events on Nantucket are looking like they are happening in October rather than typical September so SBH is possible although France and Croatia are in the lead should my work schedule stay as it is presently.
Because of the summer forecast,I can only suggest you pick Croatia or south of France ..Sbh will not be the place to be.
February 2018 was the planet's eleventh warmest February since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on Monday. NASA rated February 2018 as tied for the sixth warmest February on record, with the only warmer Februarys being 2016, 2017, 1998, 2015, and 2010. The difference in rankings between NASA and NOAA is mostly due to how they handle data-sparse regions such as the Arctic, where few surface weather stations exist. The rankings for February were cooler than we've seen in recent years thanks to the presence of colder weather than average over much of North America, Europe, and east Asia, plus the presence of cool ocean temperatures over the Eastern Pacific from a weak La Niña event for the second consecutive winter.
Global ocean temperatures during February 2018 were the seventh warmest on record, and global land temperatures were the fifteenth warmest on record.
Global ocean temperatures during February 2018 were the seventh warmest on record, and global land temperatures were the fifteenth warmest on record.
Odds for an El Niño event to form are predicted to increase as we head towards the fall and winter of 2018, with the latest CPC/IRI Probabilistic ENSO Forecast calling for a 1 in 3 chance of an El Niño event during the August-September-October peak of the Northern Hemisphere hurricane season. El Niño events typically reduce Atlantic hurricane activity, due to an increase in wind shear over the tropical Atlantic.
Arctic sea ice extent during February 2018 was the lowest in the 39-year satellite record, beating the record set in February 2017, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). This is the second consecutive month that a new monthly record for ice extent has been set in the Arctic.
A quick post about planet earth this morning ...the last white rhino is gone
The massive heatwave in north Africa still on
And we also learned that 30% of french birds are now "missing" (after 75% of insects)
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/201...ux-disparaissent-des-campagnes-francaises.php
The massive heatwave in north Africa still on
And we also learned that 30% of french birds are now "missing" (after 75% of insects)
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/201...ux-disparaissent-des-campagnes-francaises.php
Weather in the atlantic has been deemed irrelevant ) nothing to worry about.
Interestingly,the heatwave is ending in north Africa ..and the Antarctic is now much warmer than usual
No one cares.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-...s-totten-glacier-found-to-be-floating/9567922
Hedging your bets on beaches does seem more and more relevant.
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