El Nino's Weather Effect

El Nino’s Weather Effect. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

There are a couple of weather patterns we hear a lot about these days. El Nino and La Nina. The El Nino is a warming in the oceans where La Nina is a cooling. Both of these occurrences can have major effects on weather patterns. Meteorologist Tim Creek with Pacific Weather talks about this years’ El Nino.

CREEK: It looks like it’s going to be a very weak one at least through the first half of the winter. I don’t see that’s going to have a great influence on our weather either adversely or positively. But it probably will strengthen a little bit later in the year and I think the latter part of the winter we might see a little bit warmer and a little bit dryer type of situation for the region so I think in the near term in terms of the next say month, we are still going to be a pretty quiet weather pattern and then as we get late in to the harvest season we’ll start seeing more normal type of weather conditions with more frequent storms moving through the area with near normal precipitation and temperatures.

Temperatures have been dropping into the upper 30’s in some areas and I will admit the other night I had to grab a light blanket to toss on my side of the bed and close the window a bit. We can only hope that the weather will hold for the next few weeks as harvest continues on apples and chickpeas plus a few others in the area.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.