The National Weather Service’s (NWS) Climate Prediction Center stated this month there’s a 62-66 percent chance that La Niсa conditions will prevail in the Northern Hemisphere until at least the end of 2022, marking the third straight year of the weather pattern.
NWS also estimated a 39 percent chance of a transition to neutral El Niсo-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions during the July-September period. According to NWS, ENSO-neutral conditions refer to periods in which neither El Niсo nor La Niсa is present, often coinciding with the transition between the two weather patterns.
A third year of La Niсa could result in the same conditions as the previous two years, with moisture in the Northwest and drought in the Southwest and Southern Plains.
