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    What are the SHTP weather implications of a strong el niņo in 2016?

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    Deja vu all over again? See similar 2014 thread: http://sfbaysss.org/forum/showthread...highlight=nino

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    Quote Originally Posted by mike cunningham View Post
    What are the SHTP weather implications of a strong el niņo in 2016?
    Too early to call I think. El Niņo could be history by July 2016. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation maybe more important, but it is equally volatile. An interesting history of PDO index points is here: http://research.jisao.washington.edu/pdo/PDO.latest

    Interesting PDO index points;

    1983 July 3.51

    1993 July 2.35
    1997 July 2.35
    2015 July 1.84

    The PDO index is high now but nothing stellar. The California floods of 1983 were the events that made El Niņo a household word, but no one was looking at the "PDO" at the time. The term PDO and the indexes weren't coined until the late 1990s. Looking back, the July PDO index was off the chart in 1983.

    It is likely that synchronization of the PDO and El Niņo indexes are needed to produce really dangerous years.
    R Sailor

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