Is the early cold winter weather a sign that El Nino is over? (snow, hottest)

[artwomyn]

Here in the United States, we've been under the influence of El Nino this year. It contributed to an early, hot spring, a scorcher of a summer, and a relatively mild fall.

But since early this month, winter weather has hit with a vengence, across the country. We've had horribly cold weather, and bad snowstorms in the midwest, below normal temps in the east and south, and violent rainstorms on the west coast. Could all this mean that El Nino is over for now?

[nei]

Yes, El Nino left a while back. We've had a La Nina since mid fall.

Looks like El Nino left around July according to this figure

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/ana...ry/figure2.gif

[artwomyn]

Originally Posted by nei

Yes, El Nino left a while back. We've had a La Nina since mid fall.

Looks like El Nino left around July according to this figure

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/ana...ry/figure2.gif

Thanks for the info. I figured that El Nino was history, due to the swift change to abnormally chilly weather. I live in the northern tier of the US. And as I understand it, La Nina means that the the northern states, will get hammered with lots of snow this winter. Correct me though, if I'm wrong about this.

[phonelady61]

yep you understand right . I hear we are going to get blizzards in the midwest and lots of snow in parts of the south too as well .

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by artwomyn

Thanks for the info. I figured that El Nino was history, due to the swift change to abnormally chilly weather. I live in the northern tier of the US. And as I understand it, La Nina means that the the northern states, will get hammered with lots of snow this winter. Correct me though, if I'm wrong about this.

Northern tier of USA? Where exactly?

Our weather went downhill starting mid-June; avg daily highs but with above avg rain and cloud.
Our summer wasn't a scorcher in Toronto by any stretch of the imagination imho.

-hottest day 94 F
-3 to 4 days at 90+ F?
-10 to 15 days at 85+ F?
-30 to 40 days at 80+ F?
-30 to 40 days below 75 F?

[artwomyn]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

Northern tier of USA? Where exactly?

Our weather went downhill starting mid-June; avg daily highs but with above avg rain and cloud.
Our summer wasn't a scorcher in Toronto by any stretch of the imagination imho.

-hottest day 94 F
-3 to 4 days at 90+ F?
-10 to 15 days at 85+ F?
-30 to 40 days at 80+ F?
-30 to 40 days below 75 F?

I live in New England, here in the USA. Our region had an early, very warm spring. And a blazing hot, humid summer. In fact, this past summer was the hottest that New England has had, in decades.

[susancruzs]

Same here, it was hot for this area, a very unusual summer. First 2 summers here I used the air twice, this summer it was on for 2 weeks straight.

Our Dec. started off with colder than normal temps (much) and not so much snow then drastically changed, now I have a good 16" on the ground.

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by artwomyn

I live in New England, here in the USA. Our region had an early, very warm spring. And a blazing hot, humid summer.
In fact, this past summer was the hottest that New England has had, in decades.

We also had a very early, very warm spring; 2-3 weeks ahead of schedule for temps.
But all the unusual temperatures ended for us by mid-June.

Hottest in decades?
2005 and/or 2006 was easily hotter for us.
In fact I can think of at least 3-4 summers distinctly hotter and sunnier than 2010, since 1990.

We had our hottest high since 2007, but that isn't saying much;
2008 was record-wet and 2009 wetter and cooler than avg.

I've been a City-Data member for a very long time,
but since I've joined we've never been exceptionally-hot. City-Data curse?

[nei]

Originally Posted by artwomyn

I live in New England, here in the USA. Our region had an early, very warm spring. And a blazing hot, humid summer. In fact, this past summer was the hottest that New England has had, in decades.

Was it really the hottest in decades? It felt hot, but I didn't know if it was that hot? Have any stats? I'm in Western Mass. Maybe it's different where you are?

It was hot enough I would have turned on A/C – if I had it. Though I was away for the worst of it.

In any case El Niño was done during most of the hot summer.

[Stumbler.]

2009 was an unusually cool summer across much of the north/midwest US and Canada, so 2010 could have felt rather hot by comparison.