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Changes, the upper atmosphere changes all around the globe. it's almost like ringing a bell and the effect of ringing that bell changes in global energy are a shift in wind patterns, it moves the jet stream all over the globe. it turns places like indonesia and australia that normally get a lot of rain into areas that can have really severe droughts leading to crop failures, forest fires. it's associated with droughts in india, droughts in northeast brazil. heavy rain in some other areas. it's a global phenomenon. >> okay. so how -- what role does this flooding play in how we calculate whether...

Open. houston is back open for business. school will be in session again tomorrow. and houston maybe can get back to normal tomorrow. back to you, chris. >> all right, nbc news reporter charles hadlock, appreciate it. thank you. joining us to talk about if the severe weather in texas is indicator of el nino, its return, radley horton, scientist at columbia university earth institute. so, i saw this news then i saw a bunch of people saying this is another indicator we may be in store for an el nino this year. i had seen people writing about a month or two ago saying we're getting some indicatio...

It's almost like ringing a bell and the effect of ringing that bell changes in global energy are a shift in wind patterns it moves the jet stream all over the globe. it turns places like indonesia and australia that normally get a lot of rain into areas that can have really severe droughts leading to crop failures, forest fires. it's associated with droughts in india, droughts in northeast brazil. heavy rain in some other areas. it's 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 don't think we can link t...

To your west. see the pacific ocean. and to the east, caribbean sea. 40 miles from san jose. 300,000 people call home. upper level steering currents. conducive to take the smoke. direct it toward san jose. the concern here in the next coming couple of days. wind patterns remain like that. middle portion of the week. major city. lot of ash. rosie told you. covering some airport run ways there, making it dangerous. traveling toward the region. quick glance, southern california. thank you for staying up with us the we do have high surf advi adviso advisory. rosy, a storm system in new zealand. se...

They are going to focus on. that's what the calculation is telling them. again, though, not perfect knowledge. this is the analysis that they've done. things may move around a bit. metrological wind patterns, wave patterns could move things around but this is where they are going to start. what it tells us, not the whole indian ocean. they've got a good idea of where they want to begin to look out there in that vast body of water. >> you know just how troubling this is when not the whole indian ocean is the best news we can seize on. let's bring back anthony roman, a former flight instructor a...