We first learned of a major El Ni\u00f1o forming in the Pacific back in June, when the NOAA\u2019s Climate Prediction Center issued an advisory for the pattern of warm Pacific Ocean water that can mean a wetter-than-usual winter. Today, the National Weather Service held the first of a planned series of weekly briefings to update the media on the status of El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n
Warning Coordination Meteorologist Todd Hall from the LA\/Oxnard office said it\u2019s best to think of El Ni\u00f1o at this point as a scene setter. \u201cThe outcome is far from certain here. And the important point to remember going forward is that as El Ni\u00f1o sets the kind of the seasonal backdrop or the climate backdrop associated with this pattern,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hall said as we move into winter, forecasts will become more accurate and specific. But he said if weather warnings come, he and his fellow meteorologists want to be as certain as they can be, to avoid what you might call the \u201cboy who cried wolf\u201d syndrome.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as event-driven watches and warnings, we want to reserve these for imminent high-confidence hazards that pose a direct threat to life and property,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n
The Weather Service offices here and in Los Angeles plan to give media briefings on El Ni\u00f1o on Fridays as we head into the winter of 2026-2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We first learned of a major El Ni\u00f1o forming in the Pacific back in June, when the NOAA\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-453947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}