Sisanda Khumalo

03/20/2025

03/20/2025

⚜️ French Quarter - New Orleans ⚜️

❄️ Snow In The Quarter - Royal/St. Peter ❄️

⭐️ Photo by: Isabelle Jacopin ⭐️

03/19/2025

Earth’s water cycle is shifting in unprecedented ways due to human changes to agriculture systems and human-caused climate change.

The scientists found trends like decreasing groundwater reservoirs, shifts in the timing of seasons, and more frequent extreme events. The findings came from analyzing data from multiple NASA satellites from 2003-2020.

The shifts could affect the accuracy of climate models, water management practices, and more.

03/19/2025

La Niña is here, but it may not stick around for long.

NOAA confirmed that La Niña conditions were present in the eastern Pacific Ocean in early December 2024, but it may return to neutral conditions in spring 2025.

Part of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, La Niña appears when stronger-than-average easterly trade winds intensify the upwelling of cooler water, causing a large-scale cooling of surface waters in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean near the equator. The strong trade winds also push warm equatorial surface waters westward, toward Asia and Australia.

The signature of La Niña is also visible in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean as areas with lower-than-average water levels. That’s because cooler water contracts, lowering sea levels. This map shows sea surface height anomalies across the central and eastern Pacific Ocean as observed by Sentinel-6 Michael Frielich on January 13, 2025. Shades of blue indicate sea levels that were lower than average, while shades of red indicate areas where the ocean stood higher than normal. Normal sea level conditions appear in white.

03/19/2025

For those of you who do not like warm weather, mother nature has something in store for you next week. Much cooler weather is suspected all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico next week.