Is La Niña Here? Depends Who You Ask

[sue4e3]

After the demise of El Niño, the climate phenomenon that has helped fuel record-setting heat for the past two years, all eyes have stayed on the Pacific waiting for its counterpart, La Niña.

Without the cooling influence of a La Niña event, the planet is likely to continue feeling the heat for the rest of the year. July and August tied for the hottest month ever recorded and 2016 is essentially guaranteed to be the hottest year on record.

So now after a few months of waiting for the arrival of La Niña, where do we stand? Well, that depends on who you ask.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/la-nina-forecast-winter-2016-20706

[LWolf]

1. I hold onto a thin hope.

Our forests here in the PNW need some cold, wet winters. It's horrifying to see the high mountains in the Cascade range bare rock with a few left-over patches of ice instead of wearing their snow-caps.

[sue4e3]

2. I've been terrified as well

here on the east coast there has been a rash of sudden tree deaths that noone can seem to explain. I litterally live in the woods near a small lake not far from the Maurice River and the Jersey side of the Delaware Bay. We've had a hot summer but the astounding part is the humidity. we're used to high humidity here but this year was extreme it usually takes a break at night not this summer. Everything was sticky wet and I expect some kind of fungus is at work. That's scary because they have staying power