2015 neutral phase ENSO

[calvinkaskey]

If I'm not mistaken tropical activity is most intense during neutral phases. Tornado activity is usually most intense in La Nina phases from what I remember. I know African rainfall is also important and some other things going on.

 

[Marcus Diaz]

Well...we've been in a neutral ENSO phase for the past 4 years, which have all been way below count on tropical systems.

 

[calvinkaskey]

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Well...we've been in a neutral ENSO phase for the past 4 years, which have all been way below count on tropical systems.

I'm pretty sure we just came out of a la nina. Wikipedia Pacific in mid-2010,[12] and lasted until early 2011.[36] It intensified again in the mid-2011 and lasted until early 2012[37] This La Niña, combined with record-high ocean temperatures in the north-eastern Indian Ocean, has been a large factor in the 2010–2011 Queensland floods,[38] and the quartet of recent heavy snowstorms in North America starting with the December 2010 North American blizzard. The same La Niña event is also a likely cause of a series of tornadoes of above-average severity that struck the Midwestern and Southern United States in the

 

[Marcus Diaz]

Well you just reinforced my sentence of Neutral ENSO occurring in the past 3 years. And there's been a really low count of tropical systems in that time.

 

[Caleb Grunzke]

I'm pretty sure we just came out of a la nina. Wikipedia Pacific in mid-2010,[12] and lasted until early 2011.[36] It intensified again in the mid-2011 and lasted until early 2012[37] This La Niña, combined with record-high ocean temperatures in the north-eastern Indian Ocean, has been a large factor in the 2010–2011 Queensland floods,[38] and the quartet of recent heavy snowstorms in North America starting with the December 2010 North American blizzard. The same La Niña event is also a likely cause of a series of tornadoes of above-average severity that struck the Midwestern and Southern United States in the

Way to copy/paste...

 

[milkman]

El Nino is here!!...............kinda? It is more in the form of a Central Pacific El Nino.

 

[Andy Berrington]

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I'm pretty sure we just came out of a la nina. Wikipedia Pacific in mid-2010,[12] and lasted until early 2011.[36] It intensified again in the mid-2011 and lasted until early 2012[37] This La Niña, combined with record-high ocean temperatures in the north-eastern Indian Ocean, has been a large factor in the 2010–2011 Queensland floods,[38] and the quartet of recent heavy snowstorms in North America starting with the December 2010 North American blizzard. The same La Niña event is also a likely cause of a series of tornadoes of above-average severity that struck the Midwestern and Southern United States in the

Please cite where you got this information if you're going to use it in this context.