SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC (WKZO) — Some climatologists are calling it a “Godzilla” event, because its so big.
It may be the largest El Nino seen in modern times, an area of unusual warmth over the southern Pacific fueled no doubt by global warming, and while the name may be ominous…the results could be good news here in the U.S.
Especially if it results in a milder winter here in the upper Midwest, after the two severely cold and snowy winters we have just survived.
WMU Climatologist Robert Ruhf says it could also mean rain for parched California.
It may not be all good news. The last time there was a larger than normal El Nino, there were also torrential rains and landslides in California and dry mild winters in the Great Lakes that took lake levels down to worrisome lows.
It’s not a normal el Nino, and Ruhf says that could mean almost anything. But if it does what it has in the past, it would change where the jet stream travels and keep the Polar Vortex up near the North Pole where it belongs.
