{"id":16699,"date":"2015-08-28T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16699"},"modified":"2015-08-28T08:13:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T18:13:28","slug":"the-2015-el-nino-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16699","title":{"rendered":"The 2015 El Ni\u00f1o Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/analysis_monitoring\/enso_advisory\/ensodisc.html\" target=\"_blank\">intensifying El Ni\u00f1o event in the Pacific<\/a> is looking to be the strongest event of the last 50 years.  Some news outlets have dubbed it the &#8220;Godzilla&#8221; El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Officially referred to as ENSO, or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Ni%C3%B1o\" target=\"_blank\">El Ni\u00f1o Southern Ocsillation<\/a>, this event is a period of dramatically warm surface water temperatures that occurs across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.  These events usually alternate with periods of cooler temperatures, or La Ni\u00f1a events, and can have dramatic effects on weather across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate effects of the warming water are already being felt&#8230;  Water temperatures around the islands are at least 2&deg;C above normal, pushing our normally cool water into near bathtub temperatures.  Local divers are commenting on the warm water temperatures, those who normally wear wet suits are comfortable without.<\/p>\n<p>This warm water is also fueling the <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16695\">series of hurricanes<\/a> sweeping past the islands.  The storms just keep coming.  It will be an interesting year!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16700\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/figure1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/figure1-600x360.gif\" alt=\"Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16700\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea surface temperature anomaly charts for August 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intensifying El Ni\u00f1o event in the Pacific is looking to be the strongest event of the last 50 years. Some news outlets have dubbed it the &#8220;Godzilla&#8221; El Ni\u00f1o. Officially referred to as ENSO, or El Ni\u00f1o Southern Ocsillation, this event is a period of dramatically warm surface water temperatures that occurs across the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 2015 El Ni\u00f1o Event&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[377],"tags":[2115,1836,111,2116,885,507],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16704,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699\/revisions\/16704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}