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Re: ENSO: Breaking News: CPC April update=La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
The La Niña may have survived the Spring Barrier period against all odds, we could go into a rare 3rd year La Niña.
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Re: ENSO: Breaking News: CPC April update=La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
45% chance of neutral is generous.
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Re: ENSO: Breaking News: CPC April update=La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
Yellow Evan wrote:45% chance of neutral is generous.
Why generous?
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Re: ENSO: Breaking News: CPC April update=La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
cycloneye wrote:Yellow Evan wrote:45% chance of neutral is generous.
Why generous?
Should be 10% chance for neutral or El Nino. Nothing has changed from the winter months to suggest a shift away from La Nina. Nino regions are near moderate Nina levels. Subsurface is very cool. The MJO is entering its suppressed phase over the Pacific so trades will be favored for the next 30 days.
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ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
Kingarabian wrote:cycloneye wrote:Yellow Evan wrote:45% chance of neutral is generous.
Why generous?
Should be 10% chance for neutral or El Nino. Nothing has changed from the winter months to suggest a shift away from La Nina. Nino regions are near moderate Nina levels. Subsurface is very cool. The MJO is entering its suppressed phase over the Pacific so trades will be favored for the next 30 days.
My knowledge on ENSO is pretty limited but surely there are other factors at play here which the models are seeing and hence it's at 45%.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
skyline385 wrote:Kingarabian wrote:cycloneye wrote:
Why generous?
Should be 10% chance for neutral or El Nino. Nothing has changed from the winter months to suggest a shift away from La Nina. Nino regions are near moderate Nina levels. Subsurface is very cool. The MJO is entering its suppressed phase over the Pacific so trades will be favored for the next 30 days.
My knowledge on ENSO is pretty limited but surely there are other factors at play here which the models are seeing and hence it's at 45%.
Dynamical models have no credibility on ENSO whatsoever historically speaking. I think CPC likes to stick to natural statistical probabilities, which our knowledge of ENSO has advanced past to where it's relevant at least in my opinion.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
Yellow Evan wrote:skyline385 wrote:Kingarabian wrote:Should be 10% chance for neutral or El Nino. Nothing has changed from the winter months to suggest a shift away from La Nina. Nino regions are near moderate Nina levels. Subsurface is very cool. The MJO is entering its suppressed phase over the Pacific so trades will be favored for the next 30 days.
My knowledge on ENSO is pretty limited but surely there are other factors at play here which the models are seeing and hence it's at 45%.
Dynamical models have no credibility on ENSO whatsoever historically speaking. I think CPC likes to stick to natural statistical probabilities, which our knowledge of ENSO has advanced past to where it's relevant at least in my opinion.
While I agree that La Niña is the most likely occurrence by around 1 standard deviation, to say that La Niña has an 80% + chance to maintain itself is quite bullish
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
Numbers and probabilities are good in the late fall and early winter months. Right now it's clear as day what's going to happen. The La Nina is present... it didn't go anywhere. There's subsurface and atmospheric support to continue La Nina. It's super hard to get a La Nina to turn cool/warm neutral during ASO because JJA favors enhanced trades per climo. So it's almost a guarantee La Nina will prevail.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
Comically, -PDO is restrengthening. Significant warming east of Japan and cooling off the western coast of north America have been observed in recent months.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
weeniepatrol wrote:Comically, -PDO is restrengthening. Significant warming east of Japan and cooling off the western coast of north America have been observed in recent months.
https://imgur.com/2yhRfp0
South east Pacific also continues to be stubbornly cool. -SPMM not budging.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
For those who care about the SOI (it's quite noisy + spring barrier so I'm only posting this for entertainment value), all eleven of the last eleven days had values over +19.5. 90-day average now sits at +11.7
IF CFS verifies, there may non-stop easterly anomalies until next year. Africa will be waking up soon and the summer trades are going to return.
IF CFS verifies, there may non-stop easterly anomalies until next year. Africa will be waking up soon and the summer trades are going to return.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
weeniepatrol wrote:For those who care about the SOI (it's quite noisy + spring barrier so I'm only posting this for entertainment value), all eleven of the last eleven days had values over +19.5. 90-day average now sits at +11.7
IF CFS verifies, there may non-stop easterly anomalies until next year. Africa will be waking up soon and the summer trades are going to return.
https://i.imgur.com/3mWmVDr.png
We should always factor the SOI. The 30 day for MJO and 90 day values for ENSO generally cannot be beat. I look at the SOI on a regular basis as those daily values eventually make up the monthly average. But this year we don't need it to know what's going to happen.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
This WPAC warm pool has been really impressive. Won't let off the gas.
Another round of strong trades will stop it again from reaching the EPAC. That will do it for any spring time ENSO warming. Hard to get WPAC downwelling -> EPAC-ENSO warming activity during the summer months.
However IF this WPAC warm pool persists and IF we can see some SE Pacific warming by the fall we can call for an El Nino in 2023 with much higher confidence.
Another round of strong trades will stop it again from reaching the EPAC. That will do it for any spring time ENSO warming. Hard to get WPAC downwelling -> EPAC-ENSO warming activity during the summer months.
However IF this WPAC warm pool persists and IF we can see some SE Pacific warming by the fall we can call for an El Nino in 2023 with much higher confidence.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
We will absolutely be due for an El Nino in 2023. Once this La Nina finally terminates we might perhaps even see the first moderate-to-strong El Nino since 2015. Anything is possible, of course, but this specific outcome wouldn't surprise me
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
At this point if we do not get some sort of +ENSO state or an El Niño by 2023, then I would be genuinely shocked.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
Kingarabian wrote:This WPAC warm pool has been really impressive. Won't let off the gas.
https://i.imgur.com/x3gLs7b.gif
Another round of strong trades will stop it again from reaching the EPAC. That will do it for any spring time ENSO warming. Hard to get WPAC downwelling -> EPAC-ENSO warming activity during the summer months.
https://i.imgur.com/yTnfr7g.png
However IF this WPAC warm pool persists and IF we can see some SE Pacific warming by the fall we can call for an El Nino in 2023 with much higher confidence.
Niño prospects are generally elevated in the wake of a third year Niña so it's definitely not unreasonable to anticipate the formation of one next year.
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
DorkyMcDorkface wrote:Kingarabian wrote:This WPAC warm pool has been really impressive. Won't let off the gas.
https://i.imgur.com/x3gLs7b.gif
Another round of strong trades will stop it again from reaching the EPAC. That will do it for any spring time ENSO warming. Hard to get WPAC downwelling -> EPAC-ENSO warming activity during the summer months.
https://i.imgur.com/yTnfr7g.png
However IF this WPAC warm pool persists and IF we can see some SE Pacific warming by the fall we can call for an El Nino in 2023 with much higher confidence.
Niño prospects are generally elevated in the wake of a third year Niña so it's definitely not unreasonable to anticipate the formation of one next year.
Curious to ask, but how did 2001 end up as a -ENSO state year despite following three La Nina years?
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
Category5Kaiju wrote:DorkyMcDorkface wrote:Kingarabian wrote:This WPAC warm pool has been really impressive. Won't let off the gas.
https://i.imgur.com/x3gLs7b.gif
Another round of strong trades will stop it again from reaching the EPAC. That will do it for any spring time ENSO warming. Hard to get WPAC downwelling -> EPAC-ENSO warming activity during the summer months.
https://i.imgur.com/yTnfr7g.png
However IF this WPAC warm pool persists and IF we can see some SE Pacific warming by the fall we can call for an El Nino in 2023 with much higher confidence.
Niño prospects are generally elevated in the wake of a third year Niña so it's definitely not unreasonable to anticipate the formation of one next year.
Curious to ask, but how did 2001 end up as a -ENSO state year despite following three La Nina years?
That Niña base state was unstoppable in the wake of the 1997 Niño. Even then, during 2001 the warm pool made enough progress that it set up for a decent El Niño in 2002
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Re: ENSO Updates: CPC April update: La Niña-51% - Neutral-45% - El Niño 7% for ASO
Kingarabian wrote:This WPAC warm pool has been really impressive. Won't let off the gas.
https://i.imgur.com/x3gLs7b.gif
Another round of strong trades will stop it again from reaching the EPAC. That will do it for any spring time ENSO warming. Hard to get WPAC downwelling -> EPAC-ENSO warming activity during the summer months.
https://i.imgur.com/yTnfr7g.png
However IF this WPAC warm pool persists and IF we can see some SE Pacific warming by the fall we can call for an El Nino in 2023 with much higher confidence.
How much would a WPac warm pool impact activity over there this year?
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