Trending Cooler and Wetter - Brewing El Nino May Be "Historic" - Minneapolis Star Tribune

USDA data suggests Minnesota may see a record corn harvest this year, the 3rd biggest on record for the USA. A lack of late summer drying may be tied to an amplifying El Nino, maybe the biggest on record. We cool into the 70s by midweek before spiking into the 80s again by. Federal Experts: Current El Nino Could Be "Historically Strong". Here's an excerpt from Huffington Post : ". This definitely has the potential of being the Godzilla El Niño,” Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the Los Angeles Times. “Everything now is going to the right way for El Niño. ” NOAA's Mike Halpert said Thursday the current El Niño likely will rival past super El Niños in 1997-1998, 1982-83 and 1972-73. The most recent El Niño, beginning in 1997, caused the second-warmest and seventh-wettest winter since record keeping... El Nino Could Rank Among Strongest on Record. here's an excerpt: ". It’s possible this El Niño, which in the latest update was called “significant and strengthening,” could reach more than 3. 5°F above normal in this ocean region, “a value that we’ve only recorded three times in the last 65... Source: www.startribune.com