La Nina is back - what exactly is it?

I see La Nina all over the news today and if you are wondering what it is, take a look. There is an area, in the Pacific along the equator, that is monitored carefully. When it's warmer than normal, it's El Nino and when it's cooler, it's La Nina.

Water temperatures across the oceans have a big impact on weather patterns that we see across the US, but they aren't the only things going on. The impact from one La Nina might be different from the next, so you can't make a long term prediction strictly on that phenomenon alone. Typical La Nina patterns favor dry weather in the south and colder weather in the north.

The last strong La Ninas we had were back in 2010-11 and in 2011-12.

We have our winter forecast coming up November 20 at 10 p.m., and we will share with you our thoughts on what may happen in the season ahead.

In the meantime, a quick check of what's going to happen this weekend:
Saturday- cloudy with drizzle. Our Future Track is very widespread on the clouds.

Sunday - more sun & 50s on the way

There will be more active weather coming next week. I see cloudy weather coming back for some on Monday & another front arriving Tuesday. Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for spending a few minutes with us.