After a few years in a solid La Nina weather pattern, this winter saw a strong El Nino. However, that didn’t last long, as we are already back to ENSO-neutral, which will then lead to La Nina again this summer. Iowa State Climatologist Dr. Justin Glisan said this isn’t a surprise, though.
While we will be fully shifting to La Nina this summer, Glisan said it won’t have much of an impact on precipitation since ours is largely driven by thunderstorms.
Temperatures are projected to be warmer this summer due to La Nina, and Glisan said that change will be rapid since we’re transitioning from El Nino to La Nina.
We know that we are shifting to seeing more thunderstorm-driven weather this summer, but since La Nina doesn’t have much of a weather impact here, Glisan said it’s hard to predict what we’ll see exactly.
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