{"id":599987,"date":"2026-04-12T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599987\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:38:10","slug":"so-called-super-el-nino-forming-in-pacific-could-result-in-colder-winter-more-sea-ice-off-nl-next-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599987\/","title":{"rendered":"So-Called \u2018Super El Nino\u2019 Forming in Pacific Could Result in Colder Winter, More Sea Ice Off NL Next Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sea ice (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

Some meteorologists are predicting a much more intense El Nino<\/a> to form over the Pacific this year, causing higher sea surface temperatures across the central and eastern portion of the Pacific.<\/p>\n

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A graphic of how El Nino typically affects weather patterns (NOAA)<\/p>\n

The so-called \u2018Super El Nino,\u2019 if it develops, could disrupt global weather patterns and shift the track of storms, rainfall and temperature trends.<\/p>\n

Senior meteorologist with the Canadian ice Service, George Karaganis says while central North America could see greater effects than the east coast, it could result in a colder winter for the coast of Labrador and Davis Strait.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it might do is it might lead to more ice, because the warm\/warm setup along the Labrador coast and especially the Davis Strait and off Baffin (Island) won\u2019t set up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you picture a wave pattern in the atmosphere, it won\u2019t be as pronounced, and you won\u2019t have as much warm air as far north. With that you probably end up getting the ice from the Baffin Island area coming down the Labrador coast probably a little sooner. That\u2019s my experienced guess. It\u2019s usually how it sets up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sea ice (VOCM News) Some meteorologists are predicting a much more intense El Nino to form over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-599987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}