Through the next three months, the agency sees rising odds of the opposite Pacific phenomenon, El Niño, a condition that has markedly different impacts
on weather patterns around the world.
Not exact matches
Aaron Kennedy, an assistant atmospheric sciences professor, recently encountered an atmosphere unlike anything he normally finds in his field work
on the prevalence of extreme
weather patterns around the
world: the halls of Congress.
While it is often occurring in remote regions, ongoing change with the cryosphere has impacts
on people all
around the
world: sea level rise affects coastlines globally, billions of people rely
on water from snowpack, and the diminishing sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in Earth's climate and
weather patterns.
[Insert, 11:30 p.m. Justin Gillis filed an excellent report tonight
on factors behind severe
weather around the
world, stressing that El Niño is hardly the only player: «This winter, a climate
pattern called the Arctic Oscillation is also keeping cold air bottled up in the high north, allowing heat and moisture to accumulate in the middle latitudes.»]
In addition to providing details
on the evolving cloud population critical to the MJO, the findings may also help illuminate how the MJO interacts with other climate
patterns, like El Niño, allowing scientists to better predict and prepare for
weather events
around the
world.