Also what are the possible impacts on weather due to a El Nino cycle?
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well, it all depends. If you live in like, california it can be anything from really weird weather like hot one week and a blizzard the next, and if you live in like south america, in peru, the waters get really warm. that's just a few of them.
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Increasing wind strength and resulting storm damage will be a global problem. An increase in desertification will hit the inland countries, alterations to the sea level will affect coastal countries.\n\nThe cold temperate zone will actually get colder, less habitable - affecting developed countries only. If the warming  cuts off the gulf stream, the pendulum might swing back and cause glaciation - an ice age. While this will directly affect the developed countries, the developing countries will have to cope with yet less available water. A lose-lose situation...
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http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/climate.htm
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Maybe try starting your own home business. Or you could go through the phone book and find an unemployment agency you could call. Also answering newspaper ads is useful.\n\nThe strange weather must be due to El Nino perhaps, but I'm not a meteorologist. Or it could be due to air pollution or other human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and so forth.
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It's the same, check out this site:\nhttp://espanol.weather.com/weather/local/GTXX0002?letter=G\nit has the weather forecast for this week in Guatemala (I'm from Guatemala) and it can give you an idea of them.  By the way the word "chubascos" mean "rainstorms"
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No two hurricane seasons are the same.  The iconic prediction by Dr. William Gray came out in April, and is looking for another active season (link in sources).  I also read that an AccuWeather forecaster is predicting 3 major storms will hit the US Mainland this year.\n\nMy thoughts, as an atmospheric science grad student, are that this season will be above average because there is not a strong El Nino, limiting the interference in the tropics.  There will also be tons of heat added into the system, and in our 50-year cycle of hurricanes, we happen to be on the upslope (look at the 1950s, and the hurricane damage then).\n\nThe season will most likely not be as bad as last year's, and that's because last year's was record-setting.  The difference is that a lot more people are living in areas that are hurricane-prone, and that's why we're seeing more covereage of them.
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although global warming is real and its effects are already being measured in a variety of systems in the world, it is being a little too hasty to assume that the warm weather in Florida (and across a lot of the US, for that matter) is caused by it.  Weather is virtually an infinitly variable system, so predicting or proving causality for a single effect is very difficult.  I think that should have been the ultimate warning for those who scoff at the idea of human-influenced global warming- we simply can not determine the long (or even short-) term effects of human activities on the earth once those activities reach a critical mass of influence (which they have) Basically, we are screwed...
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Sun Spot Cycles, or Solar Cycles, Affect Earth’s Weather  \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\nSun spot cycles are being studied by various scientific organizations which publish regular reports on their findings: the Sun has cycles of activity and inactivity, characterised by more or less sun spots, flares and other signs, and these cycles have an effect on radio communications, power distribution and even the weather on Earth as well as on orbiting spacecraft.\n\nSun spots are relatively cooler areas on the Sun that are observed as dark patches. \nThe number of sun spots observed indicates the amount of activity and the length of the solar cycle under observation. A great deal of research focuses on trying to predict sun spot activity and recently, scientists at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre reviewed all the current methods. They recommended combining the two best methods, which both use disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field as an indication of ‘solar maxima’, when the Sun is most active. Magnetic activity that accompanies the sun spots produces changes in the ultra-violet and soft x-ray emissions from the Sun with consequences for the Earth’s upper atmosphere.\n\n\nIt was Galileo, in 1610, who made the first European observation of sun spot activity. Later that century there was a period of inactivity, with very few sun spots reported from about 1645 to 1715. This inactivity corresponded with a period of colder weather on earth, with year-long snow at lower than usual altitudes and rivers freezing over - out of character. \n\nDaily observation began at the Zurich Observatory in 1749. Details of observations of sun spots – their number, size and position – have been recorded by the Royal Greenwich Observatory since 1874. US Air Force data have been added to that observatory’s records since 1976. Daily updates on the sun spot cycle and monthly updates on sun spot cycle predictions are published on the internet. \n\nRegular observation of solar activity has shown that sun spots are concentrated in two bands around the Sun. Tracings of sun spot positions reveal a shape that is referred to in the name of a ‘butterfly diagram’ of activity. Sun spots group together in clumps of around 10 spots. Monthly data reveals that the number of spots visible waxes and wanes in a cycle of about 11 years. The more scientists can learn about sun spot cycles, and predicting them, the more we will know about how the Sun works. \n\nSolar cycles of activity and inactivity, characterised by more or less sun spots, flares and other signs, are important to us on Earth and regular reports on scientific findings of observations of sun spot cycles are published on the internet.
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The earth IS slowing down, due to the friction effect of the molten core, though the pace of slowing is not noticeable in a person's lifetime. Gravity is unchanged, but weather patterns will change dramatically for 2 reasons - 1) a longer heating/cooling cycle (this assumes slow down) and 2) the reduced Coriolis effect that has great influence on weather cycles.\nTides will be less frequent.\nAlso changes in the earth's magnetic field (will reduce). When the field reduces sufficiently(or dissapears), we will lose our protection from cosmic rays, and life as we know it will end.\nFor more info I'd google this.\n\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect - but wikepedia has other entires also
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1 - I'm not familiar with the cascade ranges\n2 - If enough dust were produced it may cause the earths temperature to drop for an indefinite period, maybe 1000 years. or more commonly pyroclastic flow or mudflows will destroy farms/towns which usually has a long term effect on people and economies\n3 - unsure, maybe sulphur dioxide\n4 - Hawaii\n5 - increased gas release around volcano, increase in the gradient of volcanic dome (bulging), increase in the frequency of earthquakes
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Yes.  Forest Fires.  Fire season will be upon us soon.  We also have earthquakes, avalanches, wind storms, hail storms, snow storms, floods, etc.
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To sustain life(fauna/flora) on earth especially inland area.\nWater Cycle:\nOcean evaporate > vapour rise to sky > condense form cloud >\nmeet cold front become rain > rain form stream >stream form river > river flow to coast.\nwhen the cycle is disrupt or changed, drought/flood occurs.\nthe site below is an US site for:
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Mostly due to the sun heating the Earth and the ocean, causing convection and ocean currents, which effect the atmosphere and cause wind.\n\nThat's the very short answer; read this for the complete one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind
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The most important change would be with the weather, for example California would have more rainfall but the east would have substantially less. This would also cause a shift in the ocean currents and the vast rivers under the oceans could be reversed causing further climatic change.
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The cause of the seasons is the fact that the Earth's axis is not perpendicular to its orbital plane; it deviates by an angle of approximately 23.5 degrees of arc. Thus, at any given time during the summer or winter, one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the Sun. This exposure alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit. At any given time, regardless of season, the northern and southern hemispheres experience opposite seasons.\n\nSeasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Niño/ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.
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Portland (Oregon, I presume) is close to optimal; farther south on the  California coast (San Diego) might be better.  Anyplace east of the Rockies will have more front-related weather, with corresponding pressure changes.
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http://www.chicagoweatherfront.com/articles/el_nino.html\n\nhttp://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/pages/nino.php