The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations's (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) has declared El Nino to have officially arrived and scientists there have issued an El Nino Advisory. The advisory states that the current El Nino conditions are forecasted to strengthen into the fall and winter. The CPC considers us to be in an El Nino event when sea surface temperature anomalies over the Central and Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean, warm and cross over the 0.5° C threshold of what the average temperature for that region is. Read more: https://www.king5.com/article/weather/el-nino-advisory-noaa-pacific-northwest/281-4cdc3462-4805-4782-9916-33074d253422