{"id":196519,"date":"2023-04-17T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T12:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=196519"},"modified":"2023-04-17T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:29:09","slug":"el-nino-is-coming-fewer-storms-yet-a-very-hot-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/04\/17\/el-nino-is-coming-fewer-storms-yet-a-very-hot-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o is coming; fewer storms, yet a very hot summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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According to the European Union weather observatory known as Copernicus, the El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon is fast approaching, and this means higher temperatures for the hurricane season that starts 1 June 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diario Libre shares background information on the weather phenomenon. El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a are a cooling of the waters off the western side of South America (La Ni\u00f1a) and then the warming of these same waters (El Ni\u00f1o). These terms were created by Peruvian and Equadorian fishermen to explain the variations in their catches each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oceanographers and atmospheric scientists have since identified the temperature fluctuations and tied them into other weather events such as tropical storms and typhoons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a rather curious coincidence, Carlo Buontempo (whose name means good weather), the director of the European Union’s Earth Observation Programme, says that this 2023 there will be important temperature variations because of El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says that the La Ni\u00f1a pretty much ended in March and is now in a neutral phase. There is a 62% possibility that El Ni\u00f1o will become a reality between May and July of 2023. By autumn, that number becomes 80%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOAA explains that El Ni\u00f1o influences the Atlantic and Pacific hurricane seasons usually leading to fewer tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic and more than average in the Pacific. The good news, in the case of the Atlantic, is that El Ni\u00f1o increases vertical wind shear \u2014 the change in wind direction and strength from the surface to higher in the atmosphere \u2014 which can impede a hurricane\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warmest year of any decade is an El Ni\u00f1o year, and the coolest a La Ni\u00f1a one. Yet, NOAA experts say global warming could change this. The weather forecasters maintain, nevertheless, that if El Ni\u00f1o develops this year, there may be an increase in record-warm global temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far this 2023, the Dominican Republic has mostly been affected by long-lasting drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more in Spanish:
Diario Libre <\/a>
NOAA <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copernicus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 April 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the European Union weather observatory known as Copernicus, the El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon is fast approaching, and this means higher temperatures for the hurricane season that starts 1 June 2023. Diario Libre shares background information on the weather phenomenon. El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a are a cooling of the waters off the western side … <\/p>\n

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