Two of the following itesm were published Friday April 15 on yaleclimateconnections.org and were written by meteorologists Jeff Masters.
“Australia’s Great Barrier Reef experienced a mass bleaching event during March, the reef’s fourth such event since 2016, but the first ever to occur during La Niña conditions, which typically bring cooler waters to the reef. The bleached coral is stressed but not dead; the reef could survive this bleaching event if cooler waters arrive and persist, as occurred after the 2020 mass bleaching event.”
”La Niña conditions persisted during March and are expected to persist through the Northern Hemisphere summer (59% chance during June-August), with a 93% chance of either La Niña or neutral conditions thereafter, NOAA reported in its April monthly discussion of the state of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation, or ENSO.”
“The forecast from NOAA and Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society for the peak portion of the Atlantic hurricane season (August-September-October) is for a 51% chance of La Niña, 42% chance of ENSO-neutral, and a 7% chance of El Niño. If it were to happen, a third consecutive northern winter with La Niña in 2022-23 would be unu in it’s monthly global report issued last week,, an agency within NOAA analysed 143 years of historical data
“The January–March global surface temperature was 0.88°C (1.58°F) above average — the fifth-highest January–March temperature in the 143-year record. The five warmest January–March periods have occurred since 2016.
“According to NCEI's statistical analysis, the year 2022 is very likely to rank among the ten warmest years on record and has a 39.9% chance to rank among the five warmest years on record.”
it sure looks to bellcurve that the temperature trend over this 143 years is rising. You would have to be an idiot not to see it. Cue deniers of manmade global heating.
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, State of the Climate: Global Climate Report for March 2022, published online April 2022, retrieved on April 16, 2022 from https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2022
