Sea surface temperatures are rising rapidly in the eastern Pacific Ocean, likely signaling a strong and rapid start to El Ni\u00f1o this summer.<\/p>\n
El Ni\u00f1o could be stronger and faster than expected this summer if current sea surface temperature trends continue in the coming weeks. Experts have long expected to see warmer-than-normal temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific this summer, heralding the start of an El Ni\u00f1o that could affect Canada's summer and the approaching hurricane season. Uncertainty surrounding the strength and timing of El Ni\u00f1o's onset has made its effects on this summer's weather somewhat questionable. With confidence growing, here's a look at how the pattern could affect Canada's weather in the coming months. El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a describe periods of abnormal water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of South America. We have been in the colder grips of La Ni\u00f1a for three consecutive winters. This lengthy spell recently ended and it appears we are quickly heading towards warmer than normal El Ni\u00f1o sea surface temperatures. Monthly outlook of the US Climate Prediction Center<\/span> of April called for better-than-even odds that an El Ni\u00f1o would develop by this summer, with uncertainty over how fast or how strong such a pattern would develop in the coming months.\u00a0<\/span>But things have gotten a lot bigger since then. (Denis Mersereau, The Weather Network)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sea surface temperatures are rising rapidly in the eastern Pacific Ocean, likely signaling a strong and rapid start to an El Ni\u00f1o this summer. El Ni\u00f1o could be stronger and faster than expected this summer if current sea surface temperature trends continue in the coming weeks. Experts have long expected that this summer in the eastern [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}