{"id":924318,"date":"2026-10-07T18:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924318\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:20:13","slug":"el-nino-is-bringing-kelvin-waves-to-california-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924318\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o Is Bringing Kelvin Waves to California. Here&#8217;s What To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The last strong El Ni\u00f1o event, which took place from 2015-2016, had five Kelvin waves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">On the other hand, the 2022-2023 El Ni\u00f1o, did not produce strong Kelvin waves. That\u2019s because a number of other weather events\u2014including weak westerly winds\u2014did not produce the kind of conditions meant to form them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How are Kelvin waves linked to El Ni\u00f1o?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Kelvin waves commonly occur during El Ni\u00f1o years, when trade winds that normally push warm surface water toward the western Pacific weaken or change directions, moving warm water east and initiating a Kelvin wave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">There\u2019s a lot of scientific debate about how climate change is impacting El Ni\u00f1o events. However, global temperatures trend higher during El Ni\u00f1o years, as warm water adds heat into the atmosphere. That, coupled with already record breaking global temperatures due to human caused climate change, has scientists predicting that\u00a0 2027 is likely to be the world&#8217;s hottest year on record.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last strong El Ni\u00f1o event, which took place from 2015-2016, had five Kelvin waves.\u00a0 On the other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,69997,295,6094,66],"class_list":["post-924318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-el-nino","tag-environment","tag-extreme-weather","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924318","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=924318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}