Will El Niño 2015 rival the strongest year on record? - CNN.com

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If you don't know El Niño now, you will soon.The waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean are heating up, scientists say, building towards a strong El Niño event that could rival the intensity of the record 1997 event that wreaked weather-related havoc across the globe, from mudslides in California to fires in Australia.Hurricane outlook 2015: El Niño could hinder Atlantic stormsAccording to the latest forecast released Thursday by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, this year's El Niño is "significant and strengthening.""There is a greater than 90% chance that El Niño will continue through Northern Hemisphere winter 2015-16, and around an 85% chance it will last into early spring 2016," the NOAA said in a statement.The weather phenomenon largely became a part of the public vernacular during the 1997 El Niño. It caused devastating flooding in the western U.S. and drought in Indonesia. It was blamed for deadly virus outbreaks in Africa and rising coffee prices around the world.

Source: Will El Niño 2015 rival the strongest year on record? - CNN.com
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          Welcome back My Dear Shoevians to The Other Shoe. The scientists at NOAA have been warning of this 'Super El Nino' since the beginning of this summer. I have yet to see a single extra raindrop for the three months, so far. I, and millions of other Southern California residents, are hoping beyond hope that this forecast is correct. California is in dire need of precipitation, as most of you My Dear Shoevians, are well aware. We are into the tenth year of a severe-historic drought. Our reservoirs are bone dry and our lakes parched. . Even the winter snow cap just failed to materialize this past winter. If this 'Super El Nino' doesn't pan out, or moves to the north and   by passes Southern California, there could be water outages all across L.A. and Orange counties.
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                     (Pacific Ocean Water Temperatures - Red Is Hottest)

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"A strong El Niño heats up the atmosphere and changes circulation patterns around the globe, especially the jet stream over the Pacific, which becomes stronger and dumps more frequent and intense storms over the western U.S., especially California. It also means more rain for the west coast of South America.But the atmosphere is somewhat of a zero-sum game. More rain in North and South America comes at the expense of normally rainy Southern Asia and Australia, which become abnormally dry and experience droughts."

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The article also mentions the El Nino of the fall of 1997 and into the winter of 1998. I distinctly remember that El Nino! I was living in the town of Stanton, here in Orange County, during that season! The rain fell hard and for days, in late September and early October. Wonderful, rain at that time of the year, it just seems to add to the Halloween-Feel' of the September and October. We were going out, on a Friday, to fetch our (last) pumpkin to be made into a Jack-o'Latern. The rain was coming down in sheets, we were both drenched before we made it to the first intersection. However, when we did finally get to the intersection we were caught off-guard by what we saw.

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