La Niña Ends
March 20, 2023
NOAA has announced that La Niña is over, and El Niño looms on the horizon. After three years of warm and dry conditions in the south and wetter weather in the north, sea surface temperatures are returning to average levels. La Niña is blamed for overly active hurricane seasons in the Gulf of Mexico and drought in the western U.S. If we are headed to an El-Niño period, depressed natural gas prices would be consistent with recent history.
For more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/us/la-nina-weather.html