La Nina Reborn, will strengthen this Winter

A man helps push his neighbor's car up a hill after more than twelve inches of snow fell in Minneapolis (ERIC MILLER, REUTERS / September 8, 2011) NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dreaded La Nina weather anomaly, blamed for both drought and record snowfall in the U.S., has returned and will garner strength during the coming winter, the Climate Prediction Center forecast Thursday. "While it is not yet clear what the ultimate strength of this La Nina will be, La Nina conditions have returned and are expected to gradually strengthen and continue into the Northern Hemisphere winter (of) 2011-12," the CPC said in a monthly update. It said waters in the eastern half of the equatorial Pacific Oceancooled in August, and the "oceanic and atmospheric patterns reflect the return of La Nina conditions." The CPC is an office under the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. It issues monthly reports on the El Nino and La Nina weather phenomena. Both weather patterns often follow one another in the Pacific. El Nino is an abnormal warming of waters in the Pacific and led to the failure of India's vital monsoon in 2009/10.La Nina is the opposite and is often linked to the ramping up of storms in the Atlantic basin which threaten oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Source  AquaPonics Grow Vegetables without Dirt. Survival Farming Click Here!