La Niña

During the past winter season 1498 El Yaque News reported various times and explained the weather phenomenom called El Niño, which is caused by higher seawater temperatures and famous for its catastrophic impacts especially along the chilean and australian coastlines while it causes long draught and strong winds in the Caribbean. The "little sister" La Niña, sometimes also called the anti El Niño is the absolute opposite of her big brother. With lower seawater temperatures than usual also during the mostly around five month duration of a La Niña, the entire weather system and airstreams change and so does the weather around the globe. The areas which might have been flooded by the massive rains and storms during an El Niño Season, will see themeselves now fighting with mayor droughts and more wind than usual while the La Niña zones now need to find their way to deal with the pooring rain and floods, as it just happened in entire Venezuela and so also at our Island of Margarita.

The term La Niña refers to the extensive cooling of the central and eastern Pacific. The subsequent changes to the atmosphere and ocean circulation are as varied and diverse as those of the earlier El Niño event. 

La Niña  builds up by cooler than normal subsurface water in the tropical Pacific. Wave action and easterly winds will pull the colder water to the surface off the coast of Peru and Ecuador and as the easterly trade winds strengthen the effect becomes stronger. 

Now the way straight into the Caribbean is not that long anymore for a global weather system. 

After the very strong El Niño the Caribbean got in the past year, most Caribbeans hope that the little sister will be a little calmer and will calm down very soon, since floods have been dramatic and the wind system destroyed so far. To predict how long it will take, how long the rain will continue is an almost impossible challenge also for the meterologisists. But for the next week it already does look as the rain will stop completely and might be the big and expected change