NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California identified a “potential precursor” of El Niño conditions after one of its satellites spotted a massive wave of warm water moving across the equatorial Pacific.
Described as “Kelvin waves,” JPL said the US-European satellite Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich shows raised ocean surface, approximately 2 to 4 inches, and hundreds of miles wide, moving from west to east along the equator.
“A series of Kelvin waves starting in spring is a well-known precursor to an El Niño, a periodic climate phenomenon that can affect weather patterns around the world,” JPL said, adding these waves tend to be higher than cooler ocean water because warm water expands.
“We’ll be watching this El Niño like a hawk. If it’s a big one, the globe will see record warming,” Josh Willis, a project scientist on Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich at JPL.
El Niño is also associated with weakening trade winds and can bring cooler, wetter conditions to the US Southwest and drought to countries in the Western Pacific, such as Australia and Indonesia. More specifically, here are the impacts on North America:
Water expands also as it gets cooler making ice.
Will it wipeout California ?
HOPE SO !!!!!!
Wooo !!!! Surfer’s Dream !!!
Fake news! Now just wait for the increasing green taxes as a result of this “science.”
So the government can spot a 2-4 inch bubble in the ocean but they missed a large Chinese ballon ( until somebody else noticed).
Democrats will say Global Warming caused it !!!!!!