Could El Niño help with the ongoing drought in South Texas?
According to research by the National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, Texas, El Niño events from 1950 through 2005, on the average, produced cooler and wetter than average conditions during the fall and winter. That said, El Niños are variable – the El Niño winters in 1976-77 and 1977-78 in south-central Texas were very cold, while the El Niño winter in 1997-98 was mild and wet.— Bob Swanson ****************************************************************************************** Q: Is 60-degree heat the same as 60-degree cold?— Colleen Conard A: Temperature is just a measure of the amount of kinetic energy of air molecules, so no matter how you look at 60 degrees, it is always going to translate to the same amount of energy in the room. So yes, 60 degrees heat is the same as 60 degrees cold. The extra little “heat” and “cold” tags probably refer to what function your air-conditioning system is performing, i.e. “heat” means it is blowing out hot air during a cool winter’s eve
