It’s sunny and warm again on this winter day. So we asked Todd Hall, senior meteorologist at NOAA/National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard, what’s up with El Niño. The good news is that there’s still hope for rain this spring. But…
We have been in a strong El Niño since December. While the impacts from El Niño that everyone expected (such as above normal rainfall and possible flooding) have not arrived this winter to Southern California, other parts of the country saw the effects. The Northeast has had a much warmer than normal winter, for instance. Nationally, we had the warmest January on record, also an effect of El Niño.
