Marshall Shepherd
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354 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 6d ago
Marshall Shepherd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Pacific to come moving back eastward.
It also shuts down cold water that's upwelling near the South American coast.
And so you get warming conditions.
That's the El Nino.
Where'd the name come from?
Peruvian fishermen around Christmas time noticed that they weren't catching as much fish because you're shutting off that cold upwelling and all of the nutrients that the fish need.
And so they weren't catching as many fish.
And so that's where the term El Nino comes from.
From.
And so the opposite phase is, you know, when those trade winds pick back up or even strengthen, you push that water back to the western Pacific and things get colder and you get the La Niña pattern.
They both have impacts on the atmosphere, our jet stream patterns and weather around the world, including California, where you live, and Georgia, where I live.
Just about all aspects of the world where people live will be impacted.
So for example, uh on the west coast of the United States, some of our stronger El Niños, and even some of the more moderate ones, have affected rainfall, created more storm rain events, flooding, mudslides, and so forth.
Whereas here in the southeast we tend to be wetter and also have cooler conditions.
And so oftentimes people here in the south get excited because that could be a snowier winter now.
You know, we only get a few inches of snow here in Georgia a year.
So people get excited about that prospect.
But the negative aspects are certainly concerning.
One potentially positive aspect of El Nino, if you put it that way, is it tends to reduce Atlantic hurricane activity.
So in 2026, we're seeing reduced hurricane activity.
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