LongTermOutlookMarch2006

• Title: Seasonal Outlook through June 2006
• Date: 3/14/2006
• Description: Presentation
• Basin: Statewide
• Drought Mitigation - Doc Type: Presentation

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Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) for -4 weak-moderate
La Niiia events since 1950 vs. recent conditions

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Current state
of ENSO in
Multivariate
ENSO Index
(MEI) compared
to four other weak
La Nina events.
Including its late
start in the fall, it
has resembled
1995-6 the most
(that event
continued into the
winter of 1996-7).