El Nino Leaves Some Dry, Brings Back Runoff

Department of Water Resources State Climatologist Michael Anderson talked to the dairy industry about the status of El Nino, which the majority of may have passed already. “So the tropical sea surface temperatures did reach their peak anomaly in November and have since been cooling,” Anderson says. “Beginning mid-February it starting cooling much more rapidly. We expect a transition towards neutral conditions in the latter part of spring and expectations are that we may transition to a La Nina condition by later in the fall and into winter.”