The violent holiday weather including large snow storms, historic flooding and the first EF-4 Tornado to hit Dallas, Texas in more than 50 years was not caused by El Nino. That’s according to weather scientist Nicholas Bond at the University of Washington. He called the weather event that’s forced farmers to haul grain to higher ground, relocate cattle and some in instances in Texas find missing herds who’ve wandered off, merely a “fluke event.” He says El Nino is likely to bring drying and warmer temperatures to the Midwest, a welcomed reprieve, given the latest round of winter storms. But even with the dryer forecast, Missouri state climatologist Pat Guinan (Guh-NAN) says “We are not going to dry out anytime soon, regardless of what happens over the next few weeks,” according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. El Nino is expected to bring needed moisture to areas such as California. Southern states are expected to receive above normal precipitation as well. This El Nino already has wreaked environmental and economic havoc in the Southern Hemisphere, disrupting the Australian cattle industry by parching pastures; hurting rice crops in Vietnam; hitting South Africa and parts of South America with drought and sparking wildfires from Australia to Indonesia.
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