Is 2021 an El Nino or La Niña year?

La Niña continues as the Northern Hemisphere heads into winter, and forecasters are confident that it will hang around through the rest of the winter. This La Niña, the second in two years, will likely transition to ENSO-neutral sometime in the spring.

Is 2022 an El Nino or La Niña year?

LA NINA WEATHER SEASONS. Based on all the available data, an official La Nina advisory is in effect, as explained in the statement by the NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center: “La Niña is favored to continue through the Northern Hemisphere summer (59% chance during June-August 2022), with a 50-55% chance through the Fall.

Is 2020 an El Nino or La Niña year?

Consecutive La Ninas following a transition through ENSO neutral conditions are not uncommon and can be referred to as a “double-dip.” In 2020, La Nina developed during the month of August and then dissipated in April 2021 as ENSO-neutral conditions returned.

Are we currently in El Niño or La Niña?

La Niña conditions are present. La Niña is likely to continue into the Northern Hemisphere spring (77% chance during March-May 2022), and then transition to ENSO-neutral (56% chance during May-July 2022).

When did the 2020 La Niña start?

As indicated by Zheng et al. (2021), the moderate 2020/21 La Niña event originated from the cold SSTA of the equatorial eastern Pacific in May 2020, gaining strength and spreading westward under the easterly wind anomaly in the autumn, and since October 2020, the Niño3.

Are we in a La Niña year?

The current forecast favors the continuation of La Niña through the summer (59% chance), with a slightly lower chance into the fall (50-55% chance). A third-year La Niña would be pretty unusual—we’ve only seen two others since 1950.

Will the summer of 2022 be hot?

Summer 2022 is expected to be hotter than average across a broad swath of the United States, according to an updated outlook from The Weather Company, an IBM Business, and Atmospheric G2.

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