El Niño

By: Lisa Barnaby Ron Barnaby

Talking Points

• What is El Niño?

• Short “Cheat Sheet” Video

• The signs that El Niño could be coming

• A look at different effects from past El Niño years and what can be expected this year

• Ways we can prepare

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What is El Niño?

• Irregular climate change:• El Niño years are the second largest climatic

change, only the changing of seasons has a greater effect on global weather conditions

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Characterized by unusually warm temperatures around the Equator in the Pacific Ocean.

Under a normal year the temperatureranges from 21-25° C(That’s 69.8° F to 77° F)

During an El Niño yearThose temperatures areIncreased by 6 – 10° C or 10 °--17 ° F

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What is El Niño?

El Niño Cheat Sheet4

Video Src: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvJiYiBUbw4tmpRSZT2r1Hw

What are the signs?

How do we monitor these signs?

How much warning will you have?

El Niño monitoring

The Tropical Atmosphere

Ocean (TAO) Array.

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What are the signs?

•Sea level pressure

•Winds / SOI

•Sea Surface

Temperature

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How much warning will you have?

Currently El Niño can be “forecasted” anywhere from 6 months to 1 year away

Because we don’t know what causesEl Niño, these “forecasts” could vary in accuracy.

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Where on Earth does El Niño effect

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Oceanside, CA

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Laguna Beach, Ca.

Rio De Janeiro floods

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How can we prepare?12

There is no stopping El Niño…

We can’t stop El Niño from happening, but we can better prepare for the disastersthat follow when it arrives like:

Area’s of the globe that experience droughtduring El Niño should install cisterns in homes to collect rain water, to better preparefor water shortages.

These area’s typically include:Australia, Africa, India and some areas in China and South America

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We can’t stop El Niño from happening, but we can better prepare for the disastersthat follow when it arrives like:

In areas that are prone to floodingthe countries search and rescueteams should be ramping up and readyfor the call.

These areas include:U.S.A (West Coast)Central America, Peru and Japan and the surrounding areas.

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We can’t stop El Niño from happening, but we can better prepare for the disastersthat follow when it arrives like:

All areas of the globe should start training their emergency services in the types ofemergencies expected in their part of theEarth. El Niño causes climate change on a global scale and the amount of destructionand loss of life can be drastically reduced with proper training and education.

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Thank you for your time

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