Honolulu (PINA Nius) – The Pacific is moving out of a two-year La Ni\u00f1a cold spell and may be entering a new El Ni\u00f1o period, the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper reported. This could mean a more active hurricane season and a dry winter, according to the National Weather Service, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n
“Sometime in the March-to-June time frame we’ll start to have a warming situation in the ocean temperatures near the equator,” which is one of the features of an El Ni\u00f1o, said Jim Weyman, meteorologist in charge of the weather service’s Honolulu office.<\/p>\n
Long-range forecasting models disagree on how strong the warm cycle will be, or how quickly it will develop, the Honolulu Advertiser said.<\/p>\n
Weyman told the Advertiser: “When we went from the last El Ni\u00f1o to La Ni\u00f1a, it was very rapid. We’ll have to see what will happen this time. We’ll have more definite knowledge as we progress into the season.”<\/p>\n
During an El Ni\u00f1o, a massive pool of warmer-than-normal water moves west to east across the equatorial Pacific, changing rainfall and wind patterns as it goes. A La Ni\u00f1a event occurs when those waters are cooler than normal.<\/p>\n
Within the last few months, two-year cooler temperature trends headed back to normal, according to the weather service’s Climate Diagnostics Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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