Nooa has a perfect idea of how El Nino and La Nina show themselves on the Pacific temperature anomaly chart. That's a 'pattern' chart that has a map of average temperatures to subtract from the actual seawater temperatures. It is meant for pattern-matching and has no connection with physics.
However, this year it is showing tremendous turbulence on the Pacific belt, and that lines up with the actual temperatures, which also have no great connection with physics (cause and effect).
Here is the anomaly plot and look at those ratchets of turbulence. You can also check the turbulence on the ocean current chart.
This is the temperature chart. For the last recorded history, of modern instrumentation, we have had warm water coming down from the north to feed the equatorial belt. That has turned over to the southern water, which is much colder because of the straight path to the belt.
This fight of two currents is violent. We could get some physics on this, if they wanted to. But, it means that the turbulence won't go away, and La Nina will look very rumpled indeed. Especially, since she just exists as a ghost. The official pattern is a thin, straight blue line.
These are the reference plots. We didn't have that for the Phoney El Nino, and we have a shattered plot for the Dumpy La Nina, if they can actually fabricate, errr ... fudge a new plot nobody has ever seen before. It's all good, right? I love those guys.
Your homework for today is to imagine their La Nina plot. They have to come up with it to explain our upcoming Brutal Winter. Bye for now.
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