Mega ENSO is coming.........

[PB666]

ENSO is the el-nino southern osscillation. Its actually the equitorial pacific indo pacific oscillation, but...

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/

Well, the black might not get you, but if you live on an aggragate base cliff on the Eastern Pacific the little boy may just take you down a few notches.

Edited September 1, 2015 by PB666

[Dodgey]

We survived 2011 and we are more prepared now.

[YNM]

That'd be mine in the hit...

[PB666]

Geography lesson, Eastern Pacific is coast off of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington St.., Oregon, California, Baja Cal. Guererra, Xohaca, ...., Guatamala, Costa Rica, El Salvado, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile.

[YNM]

... The drought, that is. The dry season had been quite rough - maybe piping your extra water there to here would help ?

[PB666]

... The drought, that is. The dry season had been quite rough - maybe piping your extra water there to here would help ?

California is apparently at the end of a decadal drought, although we have had a relatively wet summer. sporadically wet. I expect our winter will be wet and messy. The Santa Anna winds blow in moisture off the pacific, but they also blow in a hell of alot of hot dry wind in spots that could set the whole southern part of Cali on fire. And then the is coastln erosion, during the last big el-Nino we were doing flight sim real weather out of John Wayne air port just south of los angeles, it was a kick, landing 737s on one wheel block and trying to stop the plane with thrust spoilers only.

[MinimumSky5]

Geography lesson, Eastern Pacific is coast off of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington St.., Oregon, California, Baja Cal. Guererra, Xohaca, ...., Guatamala, Costa Rica, El Salvado, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile.

Climatology lesson: ENSO effects are global, and the second major effect is drought in the western Pacific region. Almost everyone will feel the effects, e.g. here in Europe, our winter will be colder and dryer than normal.

[vger]

In the Northeast US, El Nino just means ridiculously boring weather patterns.

I hate El Ninos.

[Tex_NL]

I know I am going way off topic here but did anybody notice the topic title is a huge contradictio in terminis. An oxymoron.

El Niño translates to 'the child' or 'the small one'. Mega is used to emphasize an enormous scale. The topic title calls it both huge and tiny at the same time.

[vger]

El Niño translates to 'the child' or 'the small one'. Mega is used to emphasize an enormous scale. The topic title calls it both huge and tiny at the same time.

Tell that to the meteorologists who named it. El Nino patterns affect the entire planet.

We also park on driveways and we drive on parkways.

[PB666]

Tell that to the meteorologists who named it. El Nino patterns affect the entire planet.

We also park on driveways and we drive on parkways.

Meteorologist didn't name it, I was named by fisherman along the Peruvian coast. Its a matter of perspective, if you go back to early-biblical times the world was 500 miles in any direction. Alexander the great extended longditude from Spain to the Indus river, and paid a heavy price doing that. It wasn't until Magellan that the world becomes our world (missing Australia, Antarctica, etc), Magellan also payed a heavy price doing that.

So to the fishermen on the Peruvian coast all they see is a phenomena that affects their fish and guano production, and any affects elsewhere cannot be socially tied, so they name it in accord to what is familiar to them.

An early recorded mention of the term "El Niño" to refer to climate occurred in 1892, when Captain Camilo Carrillo told the geographical society congress in Lima that Peruvian sailors named the warm north-flowing current "El Niño" because it was most noticeable around Christmas. The phenomenon had long been of interest because of its effects on the guano industry and other enterprises that depend on biological productivity of the sea.

And so meteorologist the name is ENSO, with also is rather eurocentric, because the phenomena is technically isoequitorial. If it will make Tex_NL feel better he can change the acronym to Equitorial, Northern and Southern Oscillation (ENSO).