El Niño Advisory: El Niño conditions are present. Positive equatorial sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies continue across the western and central Pacific, while near-to-below average SSTs are evident in the eastern Pacific. There is an approximately 90% chance that El Niño conditions will continue through Southern Hemisphere winter 2015, and a greater than 80% chance it will last through 2015.
Slightly cooler (0.5 degrees C) over the entire region.
Slightly to moderately drier across the whole region.
Slightly cooler (up to 1.0 degree C) over the entire region.
Slightly to moderately drier throughout the region.
The entire region should be up to 1.0 degrees C cooler than normal.
The entire region could be moderately drier than normal.
The entire region should be up to 1.0 degree C cooler than normal.
The entire region could be slightly to moderately drier than normal.
The entire region should be up to 0.5 degrees C cooler than normal.
The entire region should be slightly to moderately drier than normal.
Much of the region could be between 0.5 and 1.0 degrees C cooler than normal.
Much of the region should be slightly to moderately wetter than normal.
The entire region should be up to 1.0 degree C cooler than normal.
The entire region should be moderately drier than normal.
The entire region should be up to 1.0 degree C cooler than normal.
Much of the region should be slightly to moderately drier than normal.
The entire region should be up to 1.0 degree C cooler than normal.
Much of the region should be slightly to moderately drier than normal.
The entire region could be slightly (up to 1.0 degree C) cooler than normal.
The entire region should be slightly to moderately drier than normal.
The area should be near normal.
The area should be moderately drier than normal.
The entire region should be near normal.
Nearly the entire region should be slightly to moderately drier than normal.
Nearly the entire region should be near normal to up to 1.0 degree C cooler than normal.
Nearly the entire region should be slightly drier than normal.
The entire region could be slightly (up to 0.5 degrees C) cooler than normal.
The plain areas of the east should be slightly to moderately drier than normal and the alpine areas slightly drier than normal.
Much of the region should be slightly cooler than normal.
Much of the western half the region could be moderately drier than normal and the rest of the region near normal except the southeastern coastal areas that could also be slightly to moderately drier than normal.
Much of the region should be near normal to slightly cooler (up to 0.5 degrees C) than normal
Most of the region should be near normal except for the southeast that could be slightly wetter than normal.