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Sea surface temperature anomalies. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

El Nino seen declining, to return to neutral by Q2

By GFM Network News, Matt Siegel January 5, 2016

Sydney | Reuters — The 2015-16 El Nino weather event, one of the three strongest in the past 50 years, has peaked in recent weeks and will likely return to “ENSO neutral” by the second quarter of this year, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Tuesday. The El Nino phenomenon is driven by warm

Average Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies, in degrees Celsius, for the week centred on Nov. 4. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Beef cattle, Crops, Weather

El Nino strengthening, to be among biggest on record: WMO

By GFM Network News, Tom Miles November 16, 2015

Geneva | Reuters — The El Nino weather pattern, a phenomenon associated with extreme droughts, storms and floods, is expected to strengthen before the end of the year and become one of the strongest on record, the United Nations’ weather agency said Monday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said this El Nino was already “strong

Average sea surface temperature anomalies for the period from Aug. 9 to Sept. 5. (CPC)

Crops, Weather

El Nino to strengthen in winter, gradually weaken in spring

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 11, 2015

New York | Reuters — A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday said El Nino conditions would gradually weaken through the Northern Hemisphere spring after peaking in late fall or early winter. The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center said the likelihood that El Nino conditions would persist through the Northern Hemisphere winter was about

Weather

El Niño and its impact on our weather

By Daniel Bezte August 24, 2015

Last weekend, while we were waiting for the Riding Mountain Triathlon to start, a thunderstorm rolled through the region, forcing everyone to run for shelter. Two weather-related story ideas came to me while waiting for the storm to move out and the race to begin. The first I’ve already talked about in the past: safety

Comment, Opinion

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a good deal for Canada?

The economic logic behind free trade is that ‘a rising tide lifts all boats’

By Robert McGarvey May 19, 2015

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a bulwark of freedom as proponents claim, or is Canada about to be shoehorned into another free trade deal that will continue the hollowing out of our economy? It depends on your perspective. The TPP, championed by U.S. President Barack Obama as an important addition to the world’s free trade zone

Crops, Weather

Ocean warming suggests 50 per cent chance of El Nino

By Colin Packham, GFM Network News March 31, 2015

Sydney | Reuters — Recent warming of the Pacific Ocean may signal an El Nino weather event is forming, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said on Tuesday. Climate models indicate the central tropical Pacific Ocean is likely to continue to warm, with El Nino thresholds to be reached or exceeded by mid-year, the weather bureau

Local news, Weather

Cold, wet spring for 2015

If forecasters have it right, this winter could be another long one,  but it won’t see long periods of below-normal temperatures

By Shannon VanRaes December 19, 2014

Call it an intermission from winter if you will, but don’t expect the warmer-than-usual temperatures to last — at least not in Manitoba. Speaking at Farm Credit Canada’s Ag Outlook in Winnipeg last week, meteorologist Mark Robinson said that this year’s El Niño is a weak one. “Right across the country we’re seeing warmer-than-normal temperatures,”

Weather

Possible El Niño developing this summer

Any large-scale change in the state of the Pacific is bound to have an impact elsewhere

By Daniel Bezte February 27, 2014

I received an email the other day asking about El Niño and what effect it might have on our part of the world, should one develop. For quite a while now the Pacific has been in a neutral El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phase, but there is some mention of an El Niño event possibly

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back, hogs continue slide

U.S. grains: Soybeans retreat after rally, wheat holds at three-month high

Klassen: Feeder market drops sharply

Tag Archives Pacific Ocean

El Nino seen declining, to return to neutral by Q2

El Nino strengthening, to be among biggest on record: WMO

El Nino to strengthen in winter, gradually weaken in spring

El Niño and its impact on our weather

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a good deal for Canada?

Ocean warming suggests 50 per cent chance of El Nino

Cold, wet spring for 2015

Possible El Niño developing this summer

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