When heat increases in air it rises faster creating a suction that draws more air faster which creates faster and faster winds. So, storms move faster, tornadoes move faster, hurricanes move faster and storms likely get bigger and wilder. This is just what naturally happens the more heat there is in air and ocean and over ground. When water gets warmer it evaporates more quickly which usually means much more precipitation than normal some places and bigger and longer droughts other places on the Globe. But, the good news for California at least might be a whole lot of rain next winter, hopefully not too much at once.
Study what happened during the last big El Ninos regarding the California, Oregon and Washington Coasts. During the biggest El Ninos we sometimes get 16 inches of rain some places in 3 days here in California which is both good and bad at the same time.
Monster El Niño Makes Record-Hot Year Look Inevitable
This
has been the hottest start to a year by far, according to data released
today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The
record heat is likely to continue as an already strong El Niño weather
pattern in the Pacific Ocean continues to intensify, ripping more heat
into the…
Monster El Niño Makes Record-Hot Year Look Inevitable
By Tom Randall
4 hours ago
This has been the hottest start to a year by far, according to data released today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The record heat is likely to continue as an already strong El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean continues to intensify, ripping more heat into the atmosphere. This monster El Niño may itself be on track to break records.
The
animation below shows the Earth's warming climate, recorded in monthly
measurements from land and sea dating back to 1880. Temperatures are
displayed in degrees above or below the 20th-century average. Thirteen
of the 14 hottest years are in the 21st century, and 2015 is on track to
raise the bar again.
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2014-hottest-year-on-record/embed/Results from the world's top monitoring agencies vary slightly. NOAA and the Japan Meteorological Agency both had June as the hottest month on record. NASA had it as tied with June 1998 for the hottest. All three agencies agree that there has never been a hotter start to the year than the past six months.
The heat was
experienced differently across the world, but few places escaped
it altogether. The map below shows a few purple spots of
cooler-than-average temperatures, and plenty of record-breaking red. The
massive stretch of chart-topping heat in the Pacific Ocean is the
footprint of El Niño.
This
year's heat is a continuation of trends that made 2014 the hottest on
record. The blistering start to 2015 may be just the beginning.
The National Weather Service predicts that the unusually warm waters of
the El Niño have a 90 percent chance of persisting through the
2015-2016 winter and an 80 percent chance of lasting through next
spring.
The most powerful El Niño on record was in 1997-98. This year's may rival it. Even if it doesn't, 2015 is well on its way to breaking the heat record.
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