Re: Global Climate figures

Dawlish wrote:

There are certainly direct global links; eg to the humboldt current
and it's positive effects on the Peruvian anchovy industry (La Nina is
disastrous, but tghe fishermen understand the oscillation and cope
with the bad years) and other, well established statistical links to
other areas. The effects of La Nina are often subtle, however. La Nina
usually produces increased rainfall in Australia, on the  Western side
of the Pacific, but this La Nina has seen the continuation of drought
in many areas of Australia, unrelieved by a moderate La nina:

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/drought.shtml

La Nina has been strong this year and the cold water has spread right across
the Pacific so could that be a reason for the continuing drought? The
Indian Ocean also became cooler than normal this year.

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