Not exact matches
Under
normal conditions, the trade winds and ocean currents in the tropical Pacific travel from the Americas to Asia, maintaining a pool of very warm water and a related area of intense tropical
rainfall around Indonesia.
Conclusion: A La Niña episode — long associated with wetter - than -
normal conditions in Australia — in 2012 likely accounts for most, but not all, of the heavy
rainfall.
Sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean are warmer than
normal — El Niño
conditions — which suppress
rainfall in the eastern Amazon.
Western and southern states experience above
normal rainfall; warmer than
normal temperatures prevail in Alaska, the Northeast, and the Pacific Northwest; and cooler than
normal conditions affect the southeast.