‘Biggest El Nino of our generation’ may be tempered by The Blob

By John Heatherly

Climatologists have named this year’s El Nino, “Godzilla,” and a second mass of warm water, “The Blob.” No one is quite sure what will happen when Godzilla and The Blob meet. When did weather get to be so much fun?

CBCNews – For many drought-weary Californians, it has become the ‘Great Wet Hope.’ Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, has given it a less enthusiastic nickname.

“This is the Godzilla El Nino,” Patzert says. “This potentially could be the El Nino of our generation.”

El Nino is the term for a massive patch of warm water that appears in the Equatorial Pacific every few years, affecting weather patterns across the world. Typically, its appearance means more rain on the Pacific coast and a milder winter east of the Rockies.