A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday forecast the development of La Ni帽a pattern during the August-October season, and is expected to last through the 2020-21 winter.
There is a chance of about 60% that La Ni帽a will develop during the Northern Hemisphere fall, with a 55% chance the pattern will continue through the winter of 2020-21, the National Weather Service’s 国产一福利 Prediction Center (CPC) said in its monthly forecast.
The La Ni帽a pattern is characterized by unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean and linked with floods and drought.
The weather phenomenon last emerged during September-November season in 2017 and lasted through early 2018.
(Reporting by K. Sathya Narayanan in Bengaluru Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Nick Zieminski)
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