{"id":883,"date":"2024-02-10T03:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T03:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2024-03-03T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T13:52:10","slug":"super-el-nino-is-here-but-la-nina-may-be-back-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/super-el-nino-is-here-but-la-nina-may-be-back-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Super El Ni\u00f1o Is Here, But La Ni\u00f1a May Be Back Next Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re currently experiencing a strong El Ni\u00f1o that\u2019s been creating some wild weather for the past few months. One of reasons I have been concerned is the first leg of my planned circumnavigation, across the South Pacific, may be impacted. The Humboldt Current off the west coast of South America can change direction, the Trade Winds become less reliable. and the ITCZ can shift during El Ni\u00f1o. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/super-el-nino-still-looms-but-la-nina-prepares-for-her-return-72868\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/super-el-nino-still-looms-but-la-nina-prepares-for-her-return-72868\">it\u2019s looking increasingly likely that the climate cycle will transition back over to a La Ni\u00f1a in the next six months<\/a>. In any case, I am hedging my bets and will make my way to Costa Rica in December, where I will make a decision to head west to the Marquessa or South to Easter Island.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.png?resize=525%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.png?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sea-surface temperature anomalies are shown in the area of the eastern Pacific Ocean where a very strong El Ni\u00f1o is present on Wednesday, February 7, 2024. Darker oranges represent warmer than normal conditions while blues represent cooler than normal conditions. These ocean temperatures help determine the strength of El Ni\u00f1o. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/07\/weather\/el-nino-super-winter-climate\/index.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/07\/weather\/el-nino-super-winter-climate\/index.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Source<\/span>.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re currently experiencing a strong El Ni\u00f1o that\u2019s been creating some wild weather for the past few months. One of reasons I have been concerned is the first leg of my planned circumnavigation, across the South Pacific, may be impacted. The Humboldt Current off the west coast of South America can change direction, the Trade &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/super-el-nino-is-here-but-la-nina-may-be-back-next-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Super El Ni\u00f1o Is Here, But La Ni\u00f1a May Be Back Next Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}