Brownfield meteorologist Greg Soulje says weather patterns the last 6 months have not aligned with a typical El Nino.
The National Weather Service defines El Nino as the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean that has global impacts on weather.
Soulje says the past few El Nino’s have produced mild temperatures and seasonal rains in the eastern and southern Corn Belt.
“But, guess what? We’ve moved into a drought there and are just beginning to exit it.