Understanding ENSO to Improve Weather Forecasts and Warnings
Find out more about ways to integrate NOAA, NASA, and GLOBE data-rich weather-related educational activities into your classroom with this teacher resource: SEASONS-Marshall County.
Some of the biggest news stories of 2016 are about the weather, and West Virginia is part of these history-making events. For example, a 'Thousand-year' downpour led to deadly West Virginia floods. And this story, Extreme weather events of 2016: Temperatures--warmest, coolest; Precipitation--wettest, driest.
Image (at right) highlights sea surface temperature differences that distinguish El Niño from La Niña. Image credit: NOAA
Is El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) associated with these extreme weather phenomena? NOAA supports a number of websites that explore this and other similar questions. Here’s one example:
