Is there more drought in store for California and the Southwest? The Kelvin Wave that preceded an El Nino has dissapated and the El Nino not not expected to develop.
That’s because the largest surge of heat ever recorded moving west to east in the Pacific Ocean, often referred to as a Kelvin Wave, which was supposed to start an El Niño and bring tropical-like rains to the West Coast and southwest, just dissipated, after it was absorbed by abnormally warm ocean waters.