Will El Nino Impact Summer Weather?

An article on AgWeb

NOAA officially declared El Niño has developed in the tropical Pacific on Thursday, but the bigger headline for agriculture this summer may not be the evolving weather pattern. Instead, one ag meteorologist says there are bigger factors to watch this summer.

The agency’s National Weather Service says El Niño is expected to strengthen through the fall, with forecasters assigning a 63% chance that sea surface temperatures in the monitored Niño region exceed 2.0°C above average later this year. If that threshold is reached, NOAA would classify the event as a “very strong” El Niño, putting it among some of the most significant events on record.

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