Out here in Colorado, a La Nina (the little girl) year means a colder Pacific and that usually translates to a mild winter here (the weather pattern that sets up then drives the usual winter storms from the Gulf of Alaska more north and splits the jetstream, leaving Colorado high & dry, like we've had this last winter (we've actually had almost no winter) which has folks very concerned about droughts and forest fires. A La Nina winter usually means that the northern tier and northeastern states get a rather bad winter, which has occurred this year as well.
An El Nino (the little boy) year means a warmer Pacific, which tends to give us a more-normal winter experience here. Now what exactly a "Super" El Nino means for us here is still unknown. I'm presuming the "super" part means a much warmer Pacific but just how that affects the weather in CONUS (Continental US of A) seems to be uncertain, unless you're a "fear-porn" monger and you're determined to scare the bejesus out of the uninformed general public.
Let me make something clear here, I actually admire genuine meteorologists as they are practicing a "real" science (well...maybe) that is critical to aviation, and farmers, and anybody else that the weather can desperately affect. What I have zero-time for is the fakers and the corrupt forces in our sadly now-mainstream media that use phony weather "data" to manipulate the public.
Another thing that I'm mildly concerned about is how it will affect the weather up in Nowhere, Minnesota this coming Fall. We've had very warm and dry autumnal weather for the last few years up there now (which overall I'm very pleased with, of course) so I do hope this new "super" phenomenon won't muck-up all my plans for the coming season up there.
Can anybody here elaborate on any of that for me? Any ametuer (or real) meteorologists here?
Last edited by Lloyd3; 04/11/26 10:13 AM.
