Three distinct factors are likely to drive the type of weather farmers and ranchers experience in Manitoba this winter, Daniel Bezte writes, starting this issue with a look at the atmospheric event known as La Niña.
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Forecasting winter 2025-26 in Manitoba
A weak La Niña is in play again this winter, but its effects aren’t clear
A wet week across Western Canada
EXTREMES | An 'atmospheric river' of Pacific moisture unloaded over British Columbia
There has been a lot going on in the weather across Western Canada, with record rains in British Columbia, fairly early and significant snows across much of the Prairies, and global temperatures still running warm despite La Niña. So, in this article I will go over the latest global temperatures and take a look at
El Niño conditions are developing in the Pacific
We know La Niña and El Niño both have an effect on weather — but predicting it is still a real challenge
El Niño conditions are developing across the Pacific with an increasing probability that a full-fledged El Niño episode will occur during the second half of 2017. Pacific equatorial winds have slackened since the start of the year and a characteristic tongue of warm water has begun to form stretching from Peru towards the international dateline.
Possible El Niño developing this summer
Any large-scale change in the state of the Pacific is bound to have an impact elsewhere
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
U.S. forecasters wary of drought after missing 2012 surprise
Reuters / The U.S. drought of 2012, the worst since the dust bowl years of the 1930s, sent world food prices to record highs. The long, dry summer cost the government a record $16 billion in crop insurance payments. The Mississippi River shrank in the heat, and barge traffic slowed to a trickle. And U.S.
U.S. weather forecaster drops El Niño watch
Reuters / The U.S. national weather forecaster has called off its El Niño watch five months after raising the alert as it is now less likely that the much-feared phenomenon that can wreak havoc on global weather will emerge. Since June, the weather forecaster had predicted that El Niño conditions, essentially a warming of waters
El Niño less likely, but Aussie crops still affected
The chance of an El Niño weather pattern has declined in the last two weeks, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said on Oct. 9, but the east coast of Australia is likely to stay dry for the rest of the year as a result of a warmer-than-average Indian Ocean, threatening greater crop loss. Pacific Ocean
El Niño short and weak
Reuters / El Niño weather conditions have emerged but will likely be weak and short lived, New Zealand scientists said Sept. 4. El Niño is a warming of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific that occurs every four to 12 years. “Borderline El Niño conditions are present in the tropical Pacific, and a weak,
WMO sees increased chance of El Niño in 2012
There is a slight chance of El Niño weather conditions developing between July and September but the strength of any such event, usually associated with significant changes in precipitation, is unknown, the World Meteorological Organization said June 26. El Niño is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific. In
Climate change blamed as hotter Australia faces more intense rains, droughts
(Reuters) Australia faces a quickening pace of climate change, according to a snapshot of the nation’s weather. A new government report says rainfall trends are changing and temperatures warming across the country. The report, compiled by the Bureau of Meteorology and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, comes after 18 months of record rains
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