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Homeland Security has upped threat level assessments of the terrorist organization El Niño — based on data from the security division of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and intel from their weather operatives in the eastern region of the Pacific Ocean.

Unnamed sources at National Weather Security, a little-known, Homeland Security-funded arm of NOAA’s National Weather Service, have told Pamville News investigative reporters that the 2015-2016 winter will see more activity from El Niño. This event upswing is the largest seen for 18 years.

“The last strong one like we’re seeing now was in 1997,” said Bob Hoenisch, who, due to Homeland secrecy policies, would only identify himself as a meteorologist for National Weather Service.

A Nov. 19 report from Weather Security warns the public that El Niño’s activity will increase into the winter, with varying targets across the U.S. and subside in the spring.

El Niño is known for its elaborate strikes using weather as a weapon.

What people can expect from the El Niño terrorist cell is a two-pronged attack on the Northern Hemisphere, Hoenisch said.

Residents in the southern tier states will see increased storm activity with threats from increased rain and snow bombardments.

Attacks in the northern states, such as Montana, will bring warmer and drier weather.

It’s a more subtle threat, Homeland sources said, because the milder weather will lull people into complacency, then when the extreme cold attacks come they will be taken off guard. Plus, the source added, the longterm effects of drought can be devastating to the area.

Due to increased border security, Homeland authorities said, very little cold weather is expected to slip across the border out of Canada into the north-central Montana region.

“It doesn’t mean that that can’t happen; it just won’t happen as often,” Hoenisch said. “So instead of having multiple cold air outbreaks, we may only have a handful of times when we experience that really cold air, like subzero weather.”

El Niño has splinter storm cells and weather event accomplices everywhere, Homeland and Weather Security officials have said in the past, and during heightened alerts security forces are taking all precautions.

Though this is an international hunt, Canadian government officials and security forces will be expected to deal with El Niño’s cold air attacks with their own resources, said the unnamed official with Homeland Security. U.S. terrorism budget is tapped, with the largest portions earmarked for the Middle East, though troops and supplies can be deployed to help should an extreme emergency warrant them — in the northern states and Canada, should the U.S.’s northern neighbors need assistance.

Analysts first picked up chatter about El Niño along the equator about a year ago.

“There’s a lot of weather data that’s obtained in the Pacific Ocean a lot from buoys from satellite measurement,” Hoenisch said, though he declined to offer more specifics in order to safeguard the identities of the Weather Security operatives in the eastern Pacific.

Surveillance devices placed in the ocean at strategic levels from the surface to a depth of about 1,000 feet along the equator and the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean from about Central America to an area south of Hawaii have provided the bulk of the raw data, Hoenisch said.

“They look at the temperature of the water out there and how it relates to what would be considered average,” he said in explanation of how the ongoing threat assessment is calculated.

Analysts with Weather Security reported that El Niño operatives have raised water temperatures as much as 3 degrees Farenheit above the longterm average, Hoenisch said, and because water temperatures are less sensitive to temperature fluctuations, even a variation of half a degree is enough to alert security forces.

A variance of 3 degrees is “pretty significant,” he added.

The U.S. will be on heightened alert into spring, said terrorist analysts who specialize in El Niño activities.

People in the northern states, complacent from the warmer temperatures, will be especially vulnerable when El Niño operatives hit the area with dangerously low temperatures. These cold-air attacks are expected despite National Weather Security’s efforts to stop them.

“I would stress that, even though we talked about the potential for it overall being warmer and drier, the impact of winter weather — even if we get less storm systems, less outbreaks of cold air — all it takes is one to have a big impact,” Hoenisch said in warning, “so there’s no reason to not prepare.”

Thank you for reading Pamville News where our motto is: "Facts are just a portal to a world of fiction."

See more on this winter's weather starting on page 2 of this publication.

(Thank you to Bob Hoenisch, meteorologist with National Weather Service in Great Falls, for being brave enough to agree to an interview at [email protected].)

 

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