Been drier than a popcorn fart in AZ. this year.
El Nino is definitely on its way
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This article was in one of my newsfeeds a few days ago. Just an FYI. Lots of pop up ads as you read the article.
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'Mind-blowing' El Niño stuns scientists. Why are they so concerned?
A Pacific El Niño is setting daily warm water records. Scientists say the world is in uncharted waters, and they aren't sure what will happen next.
www.usatoday.com
Over the 28 or so years we have chased albacore off the California and Oregon Coast, I have never really been able to reliably connect close in warm tuna water on the West Coast with the ENSO.
This is more for the tuna heads but I thought it was interesting - a post from another site by Jan Null:
There has been recent media attention to warm water species of marine life being caught along the California and to a lesser extent, the Oregon coast, and being attributed to the developing El Niño which is in the eastern tropical Pacific about 2500 miles away. The much warmer than normal water in the Eastern Pacific predated the development of El Niño and was actually in place at the end of last winter's La Niña.
This is more for the tuna heads but I thought it was interesting - a post from another site by Jan Null:
There has been recent media attention to warm water species of marine life being caught along the California and to a lesser extent, the Oregon coast, and being attributed to the developing El Niño which is in the eastern tropical Pacific about 2500 miles away. The much warmer than normal water in the Eastern Pacific predated the development of El Niño and was actually in place at the end of last winter's La Niña.
In my experience, which is limited, "exotics" off the Oregon Coast seem to just be random events, and El Nino years don't seem to produce any more than others. Seems like each year has its prominent exotic species: Some years (like last year), it's lots of marlin. Year before that was yellowtail, year before that was dorado. Haven't heard of anything yet this year, but I'm sure we'll see something soon.
Yellowtail have been caught off WA and BC per reports!