shared Thursday, anticipates drier, warmer temperatures in the South, a wetter North with a second straight year of La Niña, and drought likely to persist across the West.
La Nina, a climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean that can affect weather worldwide, tends to dry out parts of an already parched and fiery American West and boost an already busy Atlantic hurricane season.RELATED: US records hottest summer since the Dust Bowl, NOAA saysNOAA’s prediction center says above-average temperatures are favored across the South and most of the eastern U.S.