The article graphic suggests that Steve Jobs is behind the whole thing.

Coming soon - a cycle of nine different El Ninos.

Called the El Nino Sudoku.

El Niño... Spanish for "The Niño"

Protip, subby: your parenthetical statement was completely unnecessary. The cliché is established enough in general society, much less Fark, that you don't need to explain it. It would be like saying, "Your dog wants steak. (Because dogs like steak.)"

FTFA: ..which says that a change in the phenomenon is likely to be indicative of additional seasons of greater hurricane activity in the Atlantic, and an increased number of storms entering the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico

Looks like someone is sitting on some oil futures expecting another $100+ surge this summer.

First paragraph mention of death? No... Property Damage in the Billions? No... Won't someone think of the OIL? Yes!

Modoki is a legitimate English word now?

*reads TFA*

Oh. Here I was all happy excited about the headline, too.

...?

What I got from the last paragraph of TFA was not that there will be more hurricanes than normal, but more hurricanes than normal for an El Nino season, which generally has less hurricanes than normal.

So we're in for the same number of hurricanes?

so, are we gonna have -Snow- today?

Supes: El Niño... Spanish for "The Niño"

Here for the Farley reference. Leaving happy.

Hiro Nakamura: What I got from the last paragraph of TFA was not that there will be more hurricanes than normal, but more hurricanes than normal for an El Nino season, which generally has less hurricanes than normal.

So we're in for the same number of hurricanes?

Every year since Katrina they've said prior to the season "ITS GONNA BE THE WORST ONE YET... EVERYBODY PANIC." And.... there have been no major hurricanes. When these guys start saying "Oh yah... it'll be a pretty quiet season," THEN I'll start worrying.

I wonder how this new type of ENSO event will effect the other aspects of ENSO besides simply hurricanes.

so the picture suggests that this is an apple conspiracy designed to wipe out windows users, trailer parks.

/wont someone think about the windows?

All your El Niño are belong to us

This is only the beginning, soon there will be giant land-hurricanes that freeze people solid!

One of the biggest problems that climate change supporters have is that they try to use scare tactics to convince people to change (hurricanes, floods, and blizzards are going to kill us all), but when things are relatively normal, they look a little crazy. If they focused more on drought and crop failure I feel like they would have a stronger argument against climate change deniers.

Hiro Nakamura: What I got from the last paragraph of TFA was not that there will be more hurricanes than normal, but more hurricanes than normal for an El Nino season, which generally has less hurricanes than normal.

So we're in for the same number of hurricanes?

No. Basically, (And I will note that we dont fully understand why this is occuring yet) An el-nino modoki will create a differing MJO pulse. During an El Nino year, the MJO pulse creates a split jet stream (Polar and sub-tropical jets) that creates extremely high wind sheers in the tropical atlantic, especially over the ITCZ.

With the Modoki, that jet will not settle because the ambient heat coming off the pacific is further to the west (El Nino walks high temperatures all the way up to the coast of South America) and the wind sheer wont be there.

Further, no one's said this year will be a Modoki, we're on track for a weak El Nino, possibly moderate.

El Nino is Spanish. Why did they mix in Japanese? I wonder what a spanish-japanese babe looks like... I guess maybe a Filipino?

new meme?

Someone mentioned me?

Why does El Nino hate America?

bhcompy: El Nino is Spanish. Why did they mix in Japanese? I wonder what a spanish-japanese babe looks like... I guess maybe a Filipino?

Or a Filipiño

Well, this certainly COULD change things! Then again, IT MAY do nothing. On the other hand, things MIGHT change a little, of course, then again, we could have HUGE MASSIVE things happen! BUT! ahhhhhh fark it, I'm going to the bar......

FTA: ...termed as El Nino Modoki, with the Japanese word meaning: 'similar, yet different.'

Doesn't 'similar' itself rather imply that the comparison is not 100%, that there are differences between the objects?

Uhhh, what hurricanes, subby? So far there's been zero hurricanes and IIRC only one tropical storm in the Atlantic; everyone is saying right now that this far in the season there should have already been several tropical storms, so perhaps the El Nino is functioning as usual; decreasing the overall tendency for tropical storms to form in the Atlantic/Gulf.

Um...zippolight2002: Ike was kind of a major hurricane. Just b/c you didn't hear about thousands of evacuees whining and crying, doesn't mean it wasn't major. Most of us were smart enough to leave, and we came back and are still fixing and cleaning up after the storm. We didn't run off to another state and become someone else's problem.

Pr1nc3ss

No kidding. Ike put my hometown under 3-6 feet of water. Didn't hear two damned words about it because we Texans know how to suck it up and rebuild instead of beg the gov't to help.

/people still living out of FEMA trailers, mobile homes etc

FINALLY, something apparently obscure on Fark.

"moves nearly 2485 miles west"

Either that's fabulously precise or someone got lazy converting from metric. And I don't trust people who use metric.

Whoever wrote this article is a dumbshiat. There's no such thing as "Atlanta University". It's the Georgia Tech School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

If he can't even get that right I wouldn't rely on the rest of the article very much.

RoxtarRyan: ...?

What El Nino may look like...? I dunno. I am downright perplexed by that image there.