{"id":2010,"date":"2015-11-06T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2015-11-06T11:24:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:24:57","slug":"eliza-what-is-el-nino-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/11\/06\/eliza-what-is-el-nino-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliza: What is \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o&#8221; anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have left your dorm\/apartment\/bed in the past week, week &amp; a half, you\u2019ve probably noticed that the weather is, like, seriously wack.\u00a0 And we\u2019re not talking crazy rain or early snow \u2013 no that would be almost normal.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking it was 70 degrees yesterday, and it\u2019s November in New England.\u00a0 For those of you that are new, that is <em>definitely<\/em> not normal.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, global warming is real \u2013 but people also keep throwing around this \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o\u201d term to explain the seriously weird weather.\u00a0 I had barely any idea what it actually meant though, so I decided to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that El Ni\u00f1o is \u201can oscillation of the ocean-atmosphere\u00a0 system in the tropical Pacific,\u201d according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u00a0 And it seriously can change the weather around the whole globe.<\/p>\n<p>For North America, it means different things depending on where on the continent you are.\u00a0 In big news, it tends to mean a less severe hurricane season.\u00a0 In the Upper Northeast it usually means a drier and warmer than average winter \u2013 meaning less snow.<\/p>\n<p>I guess our random 70-degree days could have to do with this warmer winter that\u2019s coming our way, and after last year, that doesn\u2019t seem like such a bad thing, right?\u00a0 According to the NOAA, there\u2019s over a 90% chance that El Ni\u00f1o will last though winter, so that seems to makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER: The other major weather predictor of the world, the Farmer\u2019s Almanac, is predicting a winter that will be VERY much the same as last year. (Read: Lots of cold lots of wind lots of snow).\u00a0 With these conflicting predictions, it\u2019s pretty hard to say what\u2019s coming.\u00a0 At least we can definitely say that these days are super weird, but not bad either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have left your dorm\/apartment\/bed in the past week, week &amp; a half, you\u2019ve probably noticed that the weather is, like, seriously wack.\u00a0 And we\u2019re not talking crazy rain or early snow \u2013 no that would be almost normal.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking it was 70 degrees yesterday, and it\u2019s November in New England.\u00a0 For those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/11\/06\/eliza-what-is-el-nino-anyway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eliza: What is \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o&#8221; anyway?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44417],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}