The current version of El Niño is begining to form and experts say it has the potential to be the strongest ever recorded with "extreme rainfall" for California. But even that not be enough to relieve California's four year drought, KTLA reported.
In the last three months, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded peculiar heat levels in the Pacific Ocean. The wave of El Niño is warming up the Pacific that changes weather course all over the world. This will greatly affect the United States during winter, according to Huffington Post.
Mike Halpert of NOAA said that this El Niño could be in-line with past El Niños like the ones during 1972-'73, 1982-83 and the one more than a decade ago in 1997-98.
In 1997, El Niño manifested as the second-warmest iteration and seventh wettest winter since records began being kept in 1895. There were disasters everywhere that caused flooding, ice storms and tornadoes from California to Florida.
"This definitely has the potential of being the Godzilla El Niño," said Climatologist Bill Patzert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, adding, according to the LA Times, that "Everything now is going to the right way for El Niño. If this lives up to its potential, this thing can bring a lot of floods, mudslides and mayhem."
This El Niño wave will greatly affect Northern California. "The really big El Niños – we're not there yet – can soak the whole state. But right now it's possible to get a lot of flooding and mudslides in the south. In Northern California, you could get below-normal rainfall and snowpack.
"So that's why I'm not calling this a drought-buster yet," said Patzert as people think this will fix the extreme drought in California.
There is an 85 percent chance El Niño will remain a threat until spring of 2016.
