{"id":1195163,"date":"2023-10-23T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195163"},"modified":"2023-10-23T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:14:01","slug":"were-entering-a-pretty-strong-el-nino-heres-what-that-means-for-a-us-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195163","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re entering a pretty strong El Ni\u00f1o\u2014here\u2019s what that means for a US winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMAGE-winteroutlook_seasonal_precipitation_2023-101923-800x618-1.gif\" alt=\"The 2023-2024 US Winter Outlook map for precipitation.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMAGE-winteroutlook_seasonal_precipitation_2023-101923-scaled.gif\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1978\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The 2023-2024 US Winter Outlook map for precipitation. (credit: NOAA)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As its name implies, the jet stream is essentially a river of fast-moving air in the atmosphere at about the altitude where airplanes fly. It is typically a few hundred miles across, and jets can indeed save a lot of fuel if they can fly within this air current, generally from west to east.<\/p>\n<p>Jet streams also have significant implications for our weather on the ground, as they more or less steer storm systems that affect the mid-latitudes. That is, they in large part determine whether parts of the United States\u2014which lies almost entirely in the mid-latitudes between the tropics and poles in the Northern Hemisphere\u2014will see stormy or serene weather.<\/p>\n<p>As always with weather, the situation is complex. But one of the more useful signals in a forecaster&#8217;s arsenal is the El Ni\u00f1o\u2013Southern Oscillation in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which vacillates between warmer sea surface temperatures (El Ni\u00f1o), cooler ones (La Ni\u00f1a), and neutral conditions. This broad pattern has widespread weather implications, including the location of the jet stream.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977782#p3\">Read 8 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977782&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We\u2019re entering a pretty strong El Ni\u00f1o\u2014here\u2019s what that means for a US winter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The 2023-2024 US Winter Outlook map for precipitation. (credit: NOAA) As its name implies, the jet stream is essentially a river of fast-moving air in the atmosphere at about the altitude where airplanes fly. It is typically a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195163\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1195163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1195165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}