Host Dave Schlom is joined by a longtime friend of Blue Dot, Josh Willis from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Josh is an oceanographer who uses NASA's armada of Earth monitoring satellites to study ocean heights, temperatures and currents.
He's been studying and monitoring the El Nino Southern Oscillation for years and he and Dave have a discussion breaking down the actual science of the warm water upwelling that affects weather around the globe. While there has been a LOT of clickbait about this being some kind of "monster El Nino,"
Dave and Josh separate the facts from speculation and clickbait. This large El Nino will have impacts on things like coastal flooding this winter but what it means for winter weather is something that remains to unfold.
