The El Niño effect and East Texas

By ELLIS KNOX reporter@campcountynow.com

The current El Niño is beginning to show its muscle as the rain increases and the temperature drops or rises. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and most commercial weather centers such as Accuweather and The Weather Channel are predicting a wet and cold winter from this strong El Niño effect. What happens with a typical El Niño is the jet steam splits into two separate jet steams one running north and one running south. The jet steam is a normal atmospheric, extremely high altitude wind that greatly influences all the weather below it. The rain we have seen over the last couple weeks will probably continue because of the effect. The El Niño southern jet is driving Pacific moisture across the southern states and pulling in more warm wet air from the Gulf. Which means that when the drought broke in October and the rain started to come through week after week this signaled the southern El Niño split had actually happened.

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