COLLEGE PARK, MD. U.S. – During July, ENSO-neutral continued, as equatorial sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were near average across most of the Pacific Ocean, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The latest weekly Niño SST index values were close to zero in ...
PORTLAND, U.S. – US wine industry folks talk about terroir a lot. A core concept in how we view wine in the 21st century, terroir is the idea that soil, climate, and topography all give a wine a distinctive characteristic that it wouldn’t have if the grapes were grown elsewhere.
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, U.S. – ENSO-neutral conditions continued during March, with near-average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) across the central equatorial Pacific and above-average SSTs in the eastern Pacific. The latest weekly Niño index values were near zero in the Niño-4 and Niño-3.4 regions, and +0.8 and +0.9°C farther east ...
BANGALORE, India – Coffee Board has anticipated a sharp dip in the overall production of coffee in the year 2016-17 as the Western Ghats witnessed erratic rains in February and March. Nirmala Sitharaman, Commerce and Industry Minister informed in a written reply to Parliament that changing climatic conditions, especially unpredicted rainfall ...
La Niña conditions are present and slightly favored to persist (~55% chance) through winter 2016-17. La Niña conditions were observed during October, with negative sea surface temperature ...
ENSO-Neutral conditions were observed over the past month, although sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were below-average over the east-central equatorial Pacific Ocean. While the Niño-3.4...
The State of Nagaland, in the extreme Northeastern part of India, plans to promote coffee growing taking advantage of its favourable climatic conditions.
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The tropical Pacific Ocean has returned to a neutral El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) state, according to the latest weekly Wrap-Up from the Australian Government...
While the 2015–16 El Niño remains at weak to moderate levels, recent changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean and atmosphere, combined with current climate...