Subject: Re: El Nino and BC/Yukon weather
Date: Sep 23 09:48:33 1997
From: Michael Kennedy - mkennedy at waypt.com


Thank you, Jack, for your excellent synopsis of El Nino history in B.C.

Another term used to describe "La Nina" conditions, or those opposite to
El Nino, is "El Viejo," or "the old one." I've seen that used more and
more by oceanographers.

Excellent El Nino web pages exist. One in particular I recommend to
anyone on the West Coast, with many links to other El Nino pages, is
www.nws.mbay.net/elnino.html. They have updated sea surface temperature
maps for the northeastern Pacific every few days, as far north as the
southern Queen Charlottes, at www.nws.mbay.net/sst2.gif. The map for
9/19/97, for instance, showed some cooling occurring off the Oregon and
BC coasts compared with the previous several weeks, with apparent
"tongues" of coastal upwelling along the west coast of Vancouver Is. and
Cape Blanco, Oregon. Check it out.

Bob Boekelheide
Sequim



Michael Kennedy <mkennedy at waypt.com>
Port Townsend, WA, USA