Brief La Niña forecast

September 18, 2024

The latest forecast is for a weak and short duration La Niña, with a 71% chance of emergence in the September to November time period, with persistence for a few months, to the January to March 2025 period.

The forecast summary is here, and an extensive discussion on the ENSO blog is here.

For turfgrass managers, this is the most relevant part of this current forecast:

"A weak La Niña wouldn’t play as large a part in steering global atmospheric…