The current El Niño event is very strong, and is expected to affect weather around the globe, and in Colorado, through next spring. The impacts of El Niño are more complex over Colorado than other parts of the West. Strong El Niño conditions improve the odds for wetter-than-normal conditions in most parts of Colorado, especially in fall and spring. However, strong El Niño conditions also tend to bring dry mid-winters to our North-Central mountains....

This research offers a new methodology for forecasting extended range ENSO events, utilizing global data and a statistical model.

Explores the nature of the El Niño current and its effects on people and wildlife.

In this dazzlingly original new book, archaeologist Brian Fagan shows that short-term climate shifts have been a major--and hitherto unrecogonized--force in history. El Nino-driven droughts have brought on the collapse of dynasties in Egypt; El Nino monsoon failures have caused historic famines in India; and El Nino floods have destroyed whole civilizations in Peru. Other short-term climate changes may have caused the mysterious abandonment of the...

El Niño brings droughts, mud slides, killer storms, and even epidemics and hordes of frogs and rats. This saga of scientists and civilians, murderous storms and ecological shifts reveals the mysterious sources of the powerful weather-maker and how it has changed - and is changing - the lives of people around the globe. From East Africa to Borneo to California, on a journey that is part detective story and part scientific study, the author shows...