El Nino to continue in Oklahoma through winter

  • El Niño causes the Pacific jet stream to move south and spread farther east, as shown in this graphic from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. During winter, this leads to wetter conditions than usual in the southern United States and warmer and drier conditions in the north.
The El Niño climate conditions that affected weather this summer are likely to continue through late fall and early winter, according to a long-term forecast from the National Weather Service, but the impact for Oklahoma remains uncertain. “Oklahoma is in an area of equal-chances range,” Scott Handel, a meteorologist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Center,…

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