La Nina Surprises Meteorologists: Quick Disappearance Of Climate Phenomenon Rare

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La Nina is not a very common weather phenomenon, and not so damaging also. Recently it happened in the U.S., Canada and faded away very quickly, but left some impacts.

ABC news reports that the climate phenomenon doesn't last for a long time. La Nina occurs at regular intervals with some specific features. The changing weather pattern of it is complementary to those of El Nino.

It is a common fact that La Nina lasts for a year and sometimes even more than the longer period of the El Ninos. The incident mainly occurs in the equatorial Pacific areas. Worldwide change in the weather patterns is a key feature of it.

The U.S. weather forecast opined that the mentioned La Nina in the US has faded away within four months. Mike Halpert of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center said that this is the weakest and shortest one. The phenomenon first detected in October and completely disappeared in January.

Mike Halpert added that though the La Nina was very weak, but it left some major impacts. Due to this not so common incident Northern Plains of US, Western Canada, and Alaska experienced the unusual cold. Usually, a strong La Nina follows a strong El Nino.

This time the La Nina did not follow this pattern, and that was truly an exception. Some computer models predict that El Nino is forming later this summer. On the contrary, NOAA reports no such prediction.

Mike Halpert added that there is only one example that shows El Nino returns quickly after the La Nina. It happened once in the 1960s. It is truly very rare to see the switching between the two phenomena.

The speedy disappearance of the La Nina clearly points out a neutral condition. This condition makes it difficult for the meteorologists to predict any long-term forecasts. The meteorologists mainly depend on the long-term climate phenomenon, which was not present this time.