Lincoln Weather Conditions During El Niño, La Niña And Neutral Episodes

The following data table is a climatology of snowfall, all precipitation (melted snowfall water equivalent and rainfall combined) and Temperature in Lincoln during La Niña, El Niño, and Neutral (Nada Niño--my terminology) Winters.

The Winter months were divided into October 1-December 31 (OND) and January 1-March 31 (JFM). This was done to see if there is a difference in the early part of winter compared to the later half of winter.

The "30 year normals" refers to all data 1981-2010 combining La Niña, El Niño & Nada Niño events for that 30 year time period.

 

Snowfall & Precipitation are inches and temperature is °F.

Snowfall
Average
Most
Least
El Niño-OND
9.0
25.5
1.2
El Niño-JFM
16.0
26.4
4.8
       
Snowfall
Average
Most
Least
La Niña-OND
7.4
19.8
0.8
La Niña-JFM 
18.2
41.0
5.3
       
Snowfall
Average
Most
Least
Nada Niño-OND 
7.7
22.4
0.7
Nada Niño –€“JFM
17.8
48.1
3.9
All Precipitation
Average
Most
Least
El Niño-OND
4.58
8.17
0.39
El Niño-JFM
4.31
8.39
0.74
       
All Precipitation
Average
Most
Least
La Niña-OND
4.03
8.85
1.2
La Niña-JFM
2.94
6.83
0.58
       
All Precipitation
Average
Most
Least
Nada Niño-OND
3.76
6.95
1.02
Nada Niño -JFM
3.33
6.58
0.92
Temperature
Average
Warmest
Coldest
El Niño-OND
39.9
45.6
34.5
El Niño-JFM
31.1
38.6
26.1
       
Temperature
Average
Warmest
Coldest
La Niña-OND
41.1
45.8
34.8
La Niña-JFM 
29.4
36.1
24.1
       
Temperature
Average
Warmest
Coldest
Nada Niño-OND 
39.8
44.7
34.1
Nada Niño–€“JFM
29.7
36.1
18.9

 1981-2010 Normals:

OND Snowfall Total= 8.7 inches
JFM Snowfall total = 16.7 inches

OND All Precipitation Total= 4.35 inches
JFM All Precipitation Total= 3.34 inches

OND Average Temperature = 39.6
JFM Average Temperature = 31.2

 Cold Pacific Ocean temperatures (La Niña episodes) are -0.5 and lower
and, warm Pacific Ocean temperatures (El Niño episodes) are +0.5 and higher in the following table.
Neutral episodes (Nada Niños) are in between -0.5 and +0.5.

The following link will take you to a site giving more information
about the classification of these episodes and the full data table

Link: data source for for the above table

El Niño, La Niña And Neutral Episodes 1950-2011

Year
JFM
Year
OND
1950
-1.5
1950
-0.9
1951
-0.9
1951
0.7
1952
0.1
1952
-0.1
1953
0.4
1953
0.4
1954
0.3
1954
-1.1
1955
-0.9
1955
-2.0
1956
-0.9
1956
-0.9
1957
-0.1
1957
1.2
1958
1.5
1958
0.2
1959
0.5
1959
-0.2
1960
-0.3
1960
-0.2
1961
-0.2
1961
-0.5
1962
-0.4
1962
-0.7
1963
-0.3
1963
1.0
1964
0.4
1964
-1.2
1965
-0.4
1965
1.6
1966
1.0
1966
-0.3
1967
-0.4
1967
-0.4
1968
-0.9
1968
0.7
1969
1.0
1969
0.8
1970
0.3
1970
-0.9
1971
-1.3
1971
-1.0
1972
-0.4
1972
2.0
1973
1.2
1973
-2.0
1974
-1.7
1974
-0.9
1975
-0.6
1975
-1.7
1976
-1.2
1976
0.8
1977
0.5
1977
0.7
1978
0.4
1978
-0.2
1979
0.0
1979
0.5
1980
0.3
1980
0.0
1981
-0.5
1981
-0.1
1982
0.1
1982
2.2
1983
2.0
1983
-0.9
1984
-0.2
1984
-0.9
1985
-0.8
1985
-0.3
1986
-0.4
1986
1.1
1987
1.3
1987
1.3
1988
0.5
1988
-1.9
1989
-1.5
1989
-0.2
1990
0.2
1990
0.3
1991
0.3
1991
1.4
1992
1.6
1992
0.0
1993
0.4
1993
0.3
1994
0.2
1994
1.2
1995
0.9
1995
-0.7
1996
-0.7
1996
-0.3
1997
-0.3
1997
2.5
1998
1.9
1998
-1.3
1999
-1.2
1999
-1.3
2000
-1.4
2000
-0.6
2001
-0.5
2001
-0.1
2002
0.1
2002
1.5
2003
0.9
2003
0.6
2004
0.3
2004
0.8
2005
0.5
2005
-0.4
2006
-0.6
2006
1.1
2007
0.4
2007
-1.1
2008
-1.4
2008
-0.3
2009
-0.7
2009
1.5
2010
1.5
2010
-1.4
2011
-1.2
2011

 Link: data source for for the above table