{"id":59639,"date":"2021-10-03T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59639"},"modified":"2021-10-03T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T12:40:13","slug":"la-nina-expected-to-affect-climate-around-the-world-by-end-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59639","title":{"rendered":"La Ni\u00f1a expected to affect climate around the world by end of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenprofessors.com\/la-nina-expected-to-affect-climate-around-the-world-by-end-of-year\/\">La Ni\u00f1a expected to affect climate around the world by end of year<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Do you wish you had a crystal ball that could tell you what the climate will be next year when you plan your garden? So do many other gardeners (and climatologists). But while there is no magic answer, we do know that in many parts of the United States and other countries, year-to-year climate variability is strongly dominated by what is going on in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. This is through a phenomenon called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iri.columbia.edu\/our-expertise\/climate\/enso\/enso-essentials\/\">El Ni\u00f1o Southern Oscillation<\/a>\u201d or ENSO for short.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11734\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/gardenprofessors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Witch_Hazel_Covered_By_Snow_In_The_Garden._Hampshire_UK.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/gardenprofessors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Witch_Hazel_Covered_By_Snow_In_The_Garden._Hampshire_UK.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/gardenprofessors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Witch_Hazel_Covered_By_Snow_In_The_Garden._Hampshire_UK.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/gardenprofessors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Witch_Hazel_Covered_By_Snow_In_The_Garden._Hampshire_UK.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><figcaption>Witch Hazel Covered By Snow In The Garden. Hampshire UK. Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=User:Si_Griffiths&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Si Griffiths<\/a>, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><strong>What is ENSO and how does it affect climate?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/what-el-ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93southern-oscillation-enso-nutshell#:~:text=ENSO%20is%20one%20of%20the%20most%20important%20climate,of%20its%20strongest%20impacts%20on%20weather%20and%20climate.\">ENSO has three phases<\/a>\u2014a cold phase with unusually cold water in the equatorial Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) called \u201cLa Ni\u00f1a\u201d, a warm phase with unusually warm water in the EPO, and the neutral phase that occurs between the two extreme phases. The ocean see-saws back and forth between the two opposite phases on a semi-regular pattern that usually lasts between two and five years from one El Ni\u00f1o to the next. Sometimes you can have two La Ni\u00f1a years (or even three) back-to-back (the end of 2021 is expected to be a second La Ni\u00f1a in a row), but you almost never have two consecutive years of El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>In many parts of the world, the phase of the ENSO is highly correlated with the climate. Scientists can use that relationship to predict what the climate might be like in the coming months. That is helpful for gardeners who need to know what to expect both next season and next year for planning purposes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Ni\u00f1a expected to affect climate around the world by end of year Do you wish you had a crystal ball that could tell you what the climate will be next year when you plan your garden? So do many other gardeners (and climatologists). But while there is no magic answer, we do know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[140,31891,252,3103,31361,1219,1562],"class_list":["post-59639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate","tag-climatoogy","tag-el-nino","tag-la-nina","tag-the-garden-professors","tag-weather","tag-weather-patterns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59640,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59639\/revisions\/59640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}