El Nino keeps clutch on climate.The Pacific Ocean warming known as El Nino has maintained its strength and will continue to skew (1) The misalignment of a document or punch card in the feed tray or hopper that prohibits it from being scanned or read properly. (2) In facsimile, the difference in rectangularity between the received and transmitted page. worldwide weather patterns over the next few months, say forecasters with the U.S. Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC (1) (Central Processing Complex) An IBM mainframe that has two or more central processors (CPs) that share memory. It is the collection of processors, memory and I/O subsystems manufactured with a single serial number, typically all contained in one cabinet. ) in Camp Springs, Md. The bad boy of meteorology meteorology, branch of science that deals with the atmosphere of a planet, particularly that of the earth, the most important application of which is the analysis and prediction of weather. , El Nino heats up the surface waters of the tropical Pacific every 2 to 7 years. The present warm episode began in the spring of 1997 and has affected weather from Alabama to Zimbabwe. The enhanced atmospheric jet stream crossing the Pacific has steered a string of winter storms to California and on across northern Mexico and the U.S. states bordering the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east , says Vernon Kousky of the CPC. El Nino has drenched drench tr.v. drenched, drench·ing, drench·es 1. To wet through and through; soak. 2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal). 3. Peru and eastern Africa, while drying out Indonesia and southern Africa. Some computer climate models suggest that El Nino warmth will persist in the Pacific through May, after which the ocean should start to cool. The onslaught of storms could continue over North America into April, the CPC predicted on March 10. |
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