Page 12 - Surface Temperatures News Today

Goes through the end of november. and there are above average surface temperatures to warmer than average temperatures across the organization giving more fuel and we think there will be a more active season than usual. anywhere you seat yellow that is above average. plus are below. in the gulf there is i patch of blue. temperatures are below average. that will not last long and over all the warmer temperatures across the atlantic. this is neither an el nino or lanina. that is the water temperat...

In that region, webb was a good man to have at the table. >> he started to get up and people were starting to go through the protocol and figuring out how to rearrange things, i said, you dont worry about it, you just focus on what youre doing, im sure we can find a chair and ill sit right next to you. thats how i ended up in this folding chair. >> what were you watching? >> we were able to monitor in real time what was taking place. >> the visualization that we were able to see on the screen in...

It. one interesting thing, at the very last minute when the language was going to be developed countries shall continue to undertake economy wide emission targets. they changed that from shall to should. the reason, poppy, they did that was so they wont come back to the united states and have something that would be mandated, therefore, the senate would have to vote for it. they couldnt get 100 senators, they couldnt get 30 senators to vote for something like that. weve already voted -- >> senat...

>> reporter: scientists say the arctic has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the nation. this was one of the worst wildfire seasons on record in the last frontier state. 5 million acres burned, about the size of massachusetts. but while the obama administration blames man and the burning of fossil fuels, there is not consensus. >> the climate is changing, yes, man made emissions are playing a role. what isnt settled is how big of a role that is. and we know that we havent seen increased surfac...

>> how often do these el ninos come? >> on average, anywhere between every three and seven years. >> every three and seven. its not like a comet, right, so we dont know if its coming regularly. what do we start looking for to sort of find out why are people increasingly confident thats what were headed toward? >> were looking for a few things. were looking at surface temperatures in parts of the tropical pacific ocean, especially the central pacific and east pacific along the coast of peru. so o...

Fires. its associated with droughts in india, droughts in northeast brazil. heavy rain in some other areas. its a global phenomenon. >> okay. so how -- what role does this flooding play in how we calculate whether we are getting an el nino? >> so i dont think we can link this particular terrible flooding event to an el nino. on average, winter season in the southern u.s., you see more rain if you have a strong el nino. this time of year the link is not very strong. if we see the el nino, looks m...

Come? >> on average, anywhere between every three and seven years. >> every three and seven. its not like a comet, right, so we dont know if its coming regularly. what do we start looking for to sort of find out why are people increasingly confident thats what were headed toward? >> were looking for a few things. were looking at surface temperatures in parts of the tropical pacific ocean, especially the central pacific and east pacific along the coast of peru. so one signal is you start to see a...

New york city, for the possibility of snow moving your way. and the middle atlantic, freezing rain to start your day. surface temperatures will be at or just below freezing. sunday night, warm air will try to work its way back in into at least southern new england, limiting snow accumulations there. starting through the central plains this is how much snow we think were going to get. ohio valley, swath of 5 to 8 there. continues off into the northeast with more snow perhaps a couple of inches in...

Paula hancocks for us in indonesia. thank you. >> what was the weather when the plane lost contact with the ground? we have cnn meteorologist pedram javaheri who takes a look at the weather search and rescue and the weather the teams are up against. >> the weather across the java sea finally innmproving. there are storms in the area at the last known point with the aircraft. to the north, partly cloudy. to the south, similar story. when you talk about an area in the wet season december is the we...

Officials say at least 20 people died as a result of that storm. or series of them. and some analysts estimate that it may cost our economy $5 billion. janice dean, the weather machine, is in the extreme weather center. i was looking ahead to wednesday and thursday. looks awful. especially across the northeast when the arctic air moves south, the core, the upper midwest and wind chills will be dangerous, minus 20s, minus 30s. minneapolis, struggling to get out of the highs in the single digits a...