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El Niño’s affect on winter uncertain

Posted by: Maven on September 28, 2009 at 8:01 am

From the Riverside Press-Enterprise:

“A leading expert on the El Niño phenomenon, which can portend especially soggy winters for Southern California, says he doesn’t see that happening this year. But a meteorologist at the Climate Prediction Center in Maryland says he’s not so sure.

In a news release expected to be distributed today, Bill Patzert, an oceanographer working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, writes, “Unless present El Niño conditions intensify, I believe this El Niño is too weak to have a major influence on many weather patterns.”

Meteorologist David Unger, of the Climate Prediction Center, disagreed, somewhat.

“We’re expecting that the southern part of California would have an above-average chance of precipitation” come late winter, Unger said. But he hedged things a bit by calling the prediction “a modestly confident forecast.” …”

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September 28, 2009 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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