Signal: El Niño/La Niña growing more extreme
YasiNOAAimage

Global warming fueling La Niña’s floods and cyclones

by on 03. Feb, 2011 in Uncategorized

Tropical Cyclone Yasi has been, according to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, the “most severe, most catastrophic storm that has ever hit our coast”. I asked Dr Andrew Ash, who is director of the CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship, if perhaps it didn’t just used to be really wet and windy before the drought and maybe we’d [...]

soi30

Australian floods driven by strongest Southern Oscillation on record

by on 11. Jan, 2011 in Uncategorized

A major La Niña event continues to affect the Pacific Basin. Long-range forecast models surveyed by the Bureau suggest that the La Niña is likely to persist into the southern hemisphere autumn. All climate indicators of ENSO remain beyond La Niña thresholds. The tropical Pacific Ocean remains much cooler than average for this time of [...]