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Originally Posted by mjohnson
Sealing up the house now at 0600 for another hot day. While it can't even compete with the average southern summer day, weather here in the NM mountains has been off-normal recently - as in like hottest ever. And maybe 0.1" precip, when we should have had 6" by now YTD.
Yah, it's a dry heat - the turkey in your oven agrees...
Growing up in SW Michigan, a place with 300+ days of sun would sound like heaven. Now that I'm here, I could use a few clouds. Like seriously, turn off the cancer beam of death in the sky!
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La Niña - La Niña weather patterns can cause drier than average years in some regions of the United States. In those same regions, El Niño weather patterns can cause wetter than average years.
Typical La Niña weather patterns in the continental United States.
La Niña is caused by an interaction between the Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere above. However, it can have effects on weather all over the world. These changes in the atmosphere can lead to more lightning activity within the Gulf of Mexico and along the Gulf Coast. Also, the environmental conditions during La Niña can lead to more tropical cyclones—which include hurricanes—forming in the deep tropics (near the islands in the Caribbean, for example).
https://scijinks.gov/la-nina/