John Richards Oxford A "sea fret" in north-east England maybe, but surely a "haar" in eastern Scotland (Weather forecast, 5 October)?
A small warming of the surface waters (in El Niño's case, in the eastern Pacific) triggers weather patterns that allow the waters to warm some more, which affects the climate still further, and so on.
They found that cholera reached a peak every 3.7 years over the 18-year period, the same frequency as El Nino events, in which warming waters in the eastern Pacific disrupt weather patterns worldwide.
The large purple region over the eastern U.S. represents weather 20 degrees F colder than the 1979-2000 average.
The sliver of a state, wedged between Syria, Israel, and the still blue waters of the eastern Mediterranean, has weathered the violent upheavals roiling the Middle East, but that doesn't mean that it has remained unscathed.
Rio's tragedy was linked to La Niña, a periodic cooling of the eastern Pacific which affects weather around the world.
So far, the only confirmed tornadoes have been in eastern Oklahoma, where the weather service reported that 12 touched down, said Michelle Schuldt, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service.
[Yale Project on Climate Change Communication] The main satellite used for monitoring the weather in eastern North America and the Atlantic Ocean is switched to standby mode and a backup is enlisted after the satellite experiences increasing interference.
Wellington boots are looking more essential than ever for festivalgoers in Reading, Leeds and other venues as a low-pressure front moves in from the Atlantic and pushes the recent warm weather towards eastern Europe.
There has been little rain in Venezuela in the past three years, and a crippling deficit last year in particular a predictable effect of El Niño, the global climate cycle that periodically warms parts of the Pacific Ocean, causing deluges in Texas and Florida, warm weather in eastern Canada, and desiccation in Indonesia and parts of Latin America.
