By the second half of summer, the weather could be hot and dry, according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
That’s because the weather coming from the Pacific Ocean is in transition from El Nina to El Nino.
Between now and then the weather Is likely to be quite variable as the two battle for dominance.
The winter was cold and snowy because El Nina dominated.
“La Niña and El Niño are two oscillations of ocean water temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean. El Niño is when it’s warmer than normal, and La Niña is cooler than normal,” Gillham said in an earlier interview. La Niña gives us a wavier jet stream and tends to give us more storms.
While a La Niña effect may produce harsh, cold winters in parts of Canada, as jet streams from the Pacific Ocean disrupt the polar vortex over the North Pole, El Niño’s effect usually means it will be warmer than normal.
It depends where the jet stream waves set up.
During La Niña, sea surface water temperatures from the tropical Pacific Ocean tend to drop by half a degree Celsius.
