NOAA issues massive El Niño warning

El Nino is powering up in the Pacific when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now predicts an 81 percent chance El Nino will become very strong by fall. NOAA believes it will rank among the most intense El Ninos ever tracked. An arrival would happen in 1997 when 23,000 people died in weather disasters that cost global governments billions. El Nino's biggest impacts include droughts, downpours, heat waves, could raise the odds of dramatic new climate records over the next year. Fox 11 weather is sponsored by Yamaha Resort and Casino. And one of the most likely impacts for our area will be more so once the upcoming winter arrives. We tend to get wetter than normal conditions during El Nino and that could be amplified even more during a potentially super or strong El Nino. Now that's a live view at LAX where we've seen right along the coast some stubborn clouds this afternoon but just a few miles inland it's and even farther inland lots of sunshine lots of heat as well. Let's first though just start right here with the typical winter El Nino pattern. I'm pointing out winter because that's when there's more of an impact on our weather patterns here in the U.S. and what we typically see is the storm track lined up more so across the southern U.S. This green area right here indicates where it's usually wetter than normal during the winter time. That would include us here in southern California but you may have noticed there northern California tends to be drier than normal during El Nino winters. We'll be watching it as that time approaches. In the meantime it's all about the heat. We have heat alerts extending through next week. It actually looks like it will get hotter next week and a little more humid which will make the heat wave even more dangerous. Spotty rain is possible though Sunday and into Monday once we start getting some of that moisture coming in. We'll look at that in a second as well. So we've got these widespread heat alerts advisories and warnings again going into next week for different regions. It's issued for different reasons at different temperature ranges. Notice this portion of LA on the coast side of the five we have a heat advisory because of temperatures that might get up to the low to mid 90s. Then 95 to 105 is possible for some of the valleys the inland empire. That's kind of hot in some of the mountains as well. Then we get to next week and our current advisories switch to a extreme heat watch for Tuesday through Thursday of next week. Meaning we may see some combination of heat advisories and extreme heat warnings in this area for Tuesday through Thursday of next week. Basically it's a long duration heat wave. We're pretty hot now. We come down a couple degrees this weekend and we bring it up to even hotter temperatures next week. Tomorrow in the sunshine and 80s for LA in the afternoon. 70s right along the coast and again farther inland we've got the heat. There's a look at the highs across the entire area. You see the valleys and the inland empire. 90s will be common. Maybe we hit 100 somewhere in the mix there. Switching it to Saturday the numbers come down slightly but it's still very hot inland and then we go to Sunday and it's going to be very similar to Saturday. So again we got those 90s for the valleys the ie otherwise a lot of 80s from LA down through Orange County and of course cooler at the coast. High pressure is over us. That's why we're hot. It's going to be with us through Friday. Backs off to the east this weekend which allows moisture to come in on the back side of it and the result could be a couple of showers or storms. Here's a look at future cast going through the day tomorrow. Let's take you to Saturday. You're going to see the clouds build in probably a partly to mostly cloudy day on Saturday but really watch Sunday here. You'll see with the result of some of that moisture coming through a few showers or storms may drift through especially our eastern areas and especially over some of the mountains and that could continue into Monday as well. Temperature trend now for the next seven days. The highs for LA and Inland Orange County. So we're very warm. We're down a few degrees this weekend. You see those temperatures up around 90 middle of next week for the coast. Again not too bad here in the 70s and then finally the valleys the Inland Empire down a few degrees this weekend back up around 100 next week. We're back right after this break.