Weekend and Beyond

The heat and humidity have both been buildly slowly this week with the offical high finally cracking ninety today. While it might get a bit hotter Friday, the temperature climvb is expected to be cut off by the development of clouds, showers and storms starting Friday and lasting through Sunday.

The heat which may require advisories will start Monday and last through Wednesday. Expect some middle nineties on these days and heat index values to common;y rise above 100.

El Nino Pattern Established

The start of El Nino, a pattern of ocean temperatures in the central Pacific Ocean which affects global weather patterns, has been observed and is officially forecast to be with us through winter 2009-2010.

During an El Nino cycle, large areas of the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean experience warmer than normal sea surface temperatures. This produces a flip-flop of normally observed weather on both ends of this region with coastal areas of western South America, normally stable and dry, subjected to more rain and storms while places like Indonesia and Australia, normally wet, seeing a much drier pattern of weather.

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