Marshall Shepherd
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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Why do we have to call it a Super El Nino?
You know, I'm on the fence on that because I also have my ear tuned to how public consumes.
information.
And sometimes public consumes information in a very different way than those of us that are scholars that do that think about things very carefully and meticulously.
And so one of the things that I know Super El Nino is it has gotten the attention of the average person.
And so we want to get people's attention because there's significant risk with this level of El Nino.
Yeah, I think that they can expect that depending on whether you're in South America, Africa, parts of Asia, there tend to be sort of these oscillating patterns of dry, wet conditions depending on where the inverted part of that wave is.
We call that a trough.
And the hump part of the wave, we call those ridges.
And so where the trough set up, that tends to be the where the more disturbed wet weather will be.
The ridges set up, that tends to be where there are hotter and drier conditions.
That varies.
And so that's why it's kind of hard to pinpoint exactly where in the southern hemisphere.
Yeah, but typically the El Nino pattern has its most significant impacts on the northern hemisphere because of the various land masses that are in place.
One thing that we do know about El Nino's and particularly strong ones that affect the entire world is that we know the planet.
Canada's warming due to anthropogenic climate change superimposed on a naturally varying climate system, in other words, greenhouse gases and land use change and so forth.
El Nino is an additional steroid on top of that warming.
So, in other words, if you look at the last several decades of warming, you clearly see the interannual or annual and seasonal variability, but you see the warming trend that's associated with global warming.
But the El Nino years tend to be even warmer.
And so there's this additional warming steroid on top of
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