An El Ni\u00f1o also shifts global weather patterns<\/a>. Typically the warmer water fuels Pacific Ocean hurricanes while dampening the Atlantic hurricane season. Extreme drought conditions have been seen in areas such as the Sahel in northern Africa, southern Africa, Oceania, India and Central America.<\/p>\nWhat would a Super El Ni\u00f1o look like for eastern Pennsylvania? Here\u2019s a look at what experienced forecasters think we could be in for:<\/p>\n
Bring an umbrella to the beach<\/p>\n
Both Accuweather Senior Meteorologist Chad Merrill and Rich Woolley, a forecaster for Weather Trends International, say the most notable weather trend for our region this summer might be more rainy days at the shore, especially later in the summer.<\/p>\n
Many mid-Atlantic coastal areas popular with area vacationers are suffering from significant droughts, especially in the Delmarva beach areas, Merrill said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we expect this summer is that the rainfall will start to pick up, especially during the second half of the summer, and we\u2019ll likely have above-average rainfall,\u201d Merrill said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first part of the summer season for vacationers going to the Delmarva, there\u2019s going to be pockets of rain, but that will be followed by an extended period of dry weather. And then, as we get into late July into August, there will likely be more days of rain and fewer days of dry weather.\u201d<\/p>\n
Slightly dampened summer heat<\/p>\n
Although Woolley said he expects to see summer temperatures below average, he acknowledged that the starting point for \u201caverage temperatures\u201d locally has risen as climate change has moved the goal posts on what is considered a normal starting point.<\/p>\n
That means we likely won\u2019t see the intense, sustained highs we saw last summer, but that also means we\u2019re not necessarily in for \u201ccool\u201d weather.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt may not be cooler than average, may still be above average, but not like what we\u2019ve seen the last couple years where they\u2019re just hot \u2014 so, just boiling hot,\u201d Woolley said.<\/p>\n
The pattern we\u2019ve seen in the early summer \u201cis telling us a tale,\u201d Woolley said, explaining he believes the area will continue to see cooler weeks interspersed with \u201ca pop of heat\u201d that lasts for two or three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warming in the Pacific Ocean has already brought El Ni\u00f1o back to our lives. What\u2019s yet to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,432,1133],"class_list":["post-228692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}