Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: Daniel Swain: Assistant Researcher and Climate Specialist, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Synopsis: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced El Niño’s emergence on Thursday, advising that the climate pattern could signal another wet winter in Southern California and increased temperatures across the globe, among other effects.

UCLA News: Swain noted that El Niño may already be exerting some influence on global circulation patterns, but it is also arriving amid some anomalous conditions such as an enhanced subtropical jet stream and record-breaking oceanic warmth. “So in some ways this year is a year with no reasonable historical analogues,” he wrote in his blog, Weather West.

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