Weather: el niño

Self-tutoring about west coast weather, the tutor mentions el niño.

I’ve heard 2023-24 could be under the influence of el niño, which isn’t too surprising. It’s been warm and wet this fall, which has been welcome.

Perhaps, when I first got here back in the late 80s, we were under el niño, since this is the weather I recall. Through the 90s and 00s a lot of the fall and winter weather was like this too: rainy (or between showers) with low clouds and/or mist, temp hovering 6 to 10°C.

Starting in 2017 we tended to have snowy winters reminiscent of, for instance, what I recall from the Maritimes. So far, this year is different, but actually a return to the type of fall/winter weather that, in Canada, is definitively west coast.