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It looks like an angry slash across the planet\u2019s middle. Sea surface temperature plots blaze red across the tropical Pacific Ocean\u200a\u2014\u200aEl Ni\u00f1o\u2019s characteristic signature. The phenom can spin weather across the planet, warming some areas, cooling others, sending rain to Southern California (usually) and drought in India (often).<\/p>\n
\u201cStrong El Ni\u00f1os greatly increase the odds of wet conditions for the state of California.\u201d Martin Horling, NOAA Physical Sciences Division<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Weather = NOAA. So beginning the week of January 18, 2016, scientists from NOAA, CIRES and many other collaborating institutions will take to the skies, the sea and the ground in a multi-pronged attempt to collect some of the best data ever gathered on this powerful global El Ni\u00f1o. Here, researchers stationed on Kiritimati Island (sometimes \u201cChristmas Island\u201d), at NASA\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, in Hawaii and elsewhere will record postcards from the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It looks like an angry slash across the planet\u2019s middle. Sea surface temperature plots blaze red across the tropical Pacific Ocean\u200a\u2014\u200aEl Ni\u00f1o\u2019s characteristic signature. The phenom can spin weather across the planet, warming some areas, cooling others, sending rain to Southern California (usually) and drought in India (often). \u201cStrong El Ni\u00f1os greatly increase the odds… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2016\/07\/1-_JRkwlk7o47H9e17MU414A.png","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-02 10:26:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/el-nino-rapid-response\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}