The Atlantic Oscillation Data

Okay, I'll admit it. You are watching someone teaching themselves as much about climate data as they can on their own day by day. Yesterday, I wanted to see about the effect of La Niña and El Niño in the Indian/Pacific Oceans and the effect in the Atlantic.

Silly me. The Atlantic has its own oscillation.

The graph here is the Atlantic oscillation from 1948 to 2012. It is slower and smaller than the La Niña/El Niño changes, only making about a half degree plus or minus in any season at most, compared to about two degree change for La Niña and El Niño at their most severe. The smaller changes take decades to swing back and forth, while La Niña and El Niño can switch from high to low to high again in about ten years.

In any case, this new information means I have to do a little programming to deal with the new data. As the Gosh Darned Pater Familias is fond of saying, you learn something new every day if you are not careful.