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Entries Tagged as 'El Nino'

So Is 2009 an “El Nino Year”?

June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Click here to listen to episode 532 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, we talked about the recently-released forecasts for the overall hurricane activity in the Atlantic for the rest of this year. Forecasters with the federal government are calling for this to be a “near normal” year, with 9-14 tropical storms and 4-7 [...]

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Tags: El Nino · Forecasting · Hurricanes and Tropical Cyclones

ENSO-Neutral Conditions

October 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Click here to listen to episode 405 of Weather Break
El Nino and La Nina (collectively known as ENSO, short for the El Nino Southern Oscillation) hasn’t been in the news much in recent months.  Both of these weather patterns involve unusual distributions of sea surface temperature across the tropical Pacific ocean, and [...]

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Tags: El Nino · Tropical Weather

ENSO-Neutral Conditions

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Click here to listen to Episode 405 of Weather Break.
El Nino and La Nina (collectively known as ENSO, short for the El Nino Southern Oscillation) hasn’t been in the news much in recent months.  Both of these weather patterns involve unusual distributions of sea surface temperature across the tropical Pacific ocean, [...]

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Tags: Climate · El Nino · Tropical Weather

El Nino and Cholera

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Click here to listen to episode 323 of Weather Break
El Nino results in shifts in weather patterns worldwide.  In some parts of the tropics, the resulting increases in precipitation are favorable for the spread of certain tropical diseases. Creighton University student Brock Hanisch has been investigating the way El Nino contributes [...]

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Tags: Climate · El Nino · Health and Weather

The Current La Nina

November 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Click here to listen to episode 182 of Weather Break
Most people have heard of the “El Nino” phenomenon, but “La Nina”–the opposite phase of the Southern Oscillation–is less familiar.  Currently, the tropical Pacific is experiencing La Nina conditions, and this results in climate anomalies around the world, including the ongoing drought [...]

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Tags: Climate · El Nino