La Nina Bows Out

[toxictwister00]

The La Nina pattern that is partually responsible for our chaotic weather pattern for 2011 from Blizzards to rampaging tornadoes, to record flooding is officially gone. We have shifted into a neutral weather pattern. It's still too early to say if El Nino will make a definitive comeback by late 2011/2012. Also as far as hurricane season, I think it will be more near average or slightly below.

Last La Nina Advisory from the CPC (Climate Prediction Center)
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html

[Lightning]

I am glad to see La Nina go.  La Nina causes droughts in the south and Florida and hopefully, with it gone, near-normal rainfall will return and with ENSO-neutral during hurricane season, we will get a slow-moving weak tropical storm or depression. Also, it's still early in Florida's rainy season, so that pattern with the sea breezes and daily thunderstorms has plenty of time to set in and hopefully, it will.

Good riddance, La Nina!

[Pop Light Brown]

I am glad to see La Nina go.  La Nina causes droughts in the south and Florida and hopefully, with it gone, near-normal rainfall will return and with ENSO-neutral during hurricane season, we will get a slow-moving weak tropical storm or depression. Also, it's still early in Florida's rainy season, so that pattern with the sea breezes and daily thunderstorms has plenty of time to set in and hopefully, it will.

Good riddance, La Nina!

Amen! Time to get some rain down south.

[twcfan68]

I thought La Niña was actually welcome in the south because it makes for wet summers and drier winters. El Niño in 2009 made summer awful and winter depressing. Witht he way the weather looks now, this looks like an El Niño summer in Louisiana--dry and awfully hot.

[phw115wvwx]

I thought La Niña was actually welcome in the south because it makes for wet summers and drier winters. El Niño in 2009 made summer awful and winter depressing. With the way the weather looks now, this looks like an El Niño summer in Louisiana--dry and awfully hot.

La Niña is mostly to blame for your ongoing drought in the Southeast right now.  Because you have little soil moisture, the ground is heating up faster than normal, and you can't get as much precipitation due to lower local evaporation of water into the atmosphere.  Thus, you're already getting hot weather despite that it's only June.  El Niño usually gives you more precipitation during the winter months, which would lead to a cooler and wetter spring and early summer.

[toxictwister00]

I rather have a El Nino over a La Nina any day. The last La Nina is partly to blame for our 3 year drought we were stuck in. The only good thing that came out of this La Nina is that I saw my 4th biggest snowstorm this past winter. We usually don't see a lot of snowfall during La Ninas so to see nearly 10 inches in total was quite impressive. We also saw plenty of severe weather, but that's not something I'm particularly happy about because of the enormous fatalities we saw from it.

[twcfan68]

We hardly got any rain this spring, which was definitely a huge disaster for the flowering plants, the grass, and the farmers who don't normally have to worry about the onslaught of droughts. All I remember from El Niño in 2009 was the many gray, cold, rainy winter days. This winter was a lot more cheerful, but we're paying for it now. The meteorologists on WAFB said this was the driest March to June in over 120 years, and one of the warmest in 80 years. This must have been one heck of a La Niña then. Hopefully we can stay in a neutral weather pattern for a while. It just seems like we're always on one extreme of El Niño or the other extreme of La Niña.

[Donovan]

What ever pattern we go into, All I care about is that we get rain. I remember a drought we had a few years back, our lakes we're nearly empty due to the lack of rain. You could walk out a mile into it where water had previously been. With the 3month precip outlook, the SC/GA/NC area's appear to be in line for above average rainfall. Thats a sigh of relief, but I'll believe it when I see it.