The September 2023 ENSO Outlook predicts El Niño will stick around at least through January-March 2024. But don't just take it from us, hear directly from the Pacific Ocean and tropical atmosphere, who join the blog to answer some questions.
NOAA's network of moored buoys in the tropical Pacific is getting an upgrade that will help scientists better understand and predict El Niño and La Nina.
Our blogger explains how scientists grade seasonal outlooks and talks about how this winter's outlooks for U.S. temperature and precipitation performed.
Atmospheric rivers take a chunk out of California drought
January 25, 2023
The January 2023 climate outlook favors a wetter-than-average start to the new year for the western US, northern Plains, Great Lakes and Tennessee Valley, and a warmer-than-average month for the central and eastern United States.
The December 2022 climate outlook favors a colder-than-average month across the northern US, and a warmer-than-average month across the southern US. Meanwhile, odds are tilted towards a wetter-than-average December for the West and Ohio and Tennessee Valleys.
The November 2022 climate outlook favors a warmer- and drier-than-average month for the eastern United States and a cooler- and wetter-than-average month for the Northwest.
It's October. So in addition to talk of ghouls and goblins, we must chat about the October 2022 climate outlook. The outlook favors a hotter-than-average month for the western and central United States, and a colder- and wetter-than-average month for the Mid-Atlantic.
The September 2022 climate outlook favors a warmer-than-average month for most of the contiguous United States along with a dry/wet split between the northern and southern tiers of the U.S.