Power shortages

💜🌺💜💜🇨🇴💜⚡️🔌 Gracias a Colombia 💜

Energy Minister reaches agreement with Colombia to continue power transfers at a lower cost; The day before Ecuadorians face an extra hour of electric blackouts, Energy Minister Andrea Arrobo announced she has signed an agreement with Colombia to maintain the transfer of electricity to Ecuador at a reduced cost.

“This is very good news and demonstrates the good will of Colombia toward Ecuador."

..."Colombia is experiencing its own hydroelectric power deficit due to the El Niño phenomenon, but it is expanding its thermal generation capacity to fill its own needs as well as to help with ours,”

https://cuencahighlife.com/energy-minis … ower-cost/

@rkg695: FOX WEATHER NEWS Published December 14, 2023 9:50am EST

El Nino appears to be on verge of rapid collapse

When sea surface temperature anomalies reach 0.5 degrees Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) or warmer than what is typical, an El Niño is considered to be underway. An El Niño is one of three phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation or what is commonly referred to as the ENSO. The current El Nino event started in June 2023.

@Ed Heade ...let's hope. However mother nature changes her mind like the direction of the wind. we'll have to wait and see…

Although NOAA’s latest forecast now suggests El Niño may be over as soon as April (?), a month earlier than last month’s forecast, and the probability of El Niño conditions remaining in April has dropped from 62% to 37%. ...like any weather event, forecasts that greatly deviate from the consensus are considered to be outliers and not reliable.

A tool that some forecasters use to determine the status of El Niño and La Niña events is the Southern Oscillation Index, or what is commonly referred to as the SOI. The index measures pressure differences in the southwest Pacific, and when the gauge turns substantially positive, a La Niña event is likely happening or on the way. The reverse is also true, and when figures are markedly negative, an El Niño event is likely in progress.

Recent values provided by Australia’s Queensland Government show a streak of positive figures that have impacted the SOI count. In fact, at times, during the last 30 and 90 days, the figure has weakened below what is typically considered an El Niño event. El Niños are known to exist when figures are at -8 on the index scale, and La Niñas exist when the average figure is around a positive 8. The latest SOI values were -7.86 for the last 90 days and -3.88 for the last 30 days, which at a glance would argue against there being an El Niño around, but values change daily and could easily reach El Niño status again.

Despite pressures in Darwin and Tahiti indicating that El Niño could be on its last leg, NOAA data depictions from satellites show no evidence of an emerging neutral or La Niña signal.