El Niño Conditions Strengthen in the Equatorial Pacific

The latest El Niño update explains that sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific were above average during May.  This kind of anomaly along with other indicators are associated with El Niño.  Current, conditions are pronounced enough that forecasters at the Climate Prediction Center predict a 90% chance that El Niño will continue through the Northern Hemisphere summer and more than an 80% chance that it will persist through 2015.  This prediction helped forecasters produce the seasonal outlook for the US which indicates equal chances for above, normal and below average rainfall and warmer than average temperatures in the Carolinas. Click here for more information about El Niño.  The latest El Niño update can be found here.

Seasonal forecast for June - August 2015.  Issued by the Climate Prediction Center.