Oh good.
Now California can continue to ignore their water supply problem and build the choo-choo to nowhere instead of desalination plants.
El Nino will allow Sacramento to continue to dump billions of gallon of water directly into the Pacific Ocean - while demanding that the peasants cease bathing.
Keep hoping, California. Jerry Brown will hope with you.
The whining now will be nothing compared to the whining when there’s too much rain on the crops. They raise the price of our food when there isn’t rain and when there is too much rain. When it’s the right amount of rain, prices don’t go down because they know we’ve bowed down to their already high prices. Remember the drought in Texas when the cattle ranchers were selling off their herds? The market was flooded with cheap cattle but prices continued to rise in your local grocery store meat department.
Maybe they should require proof of citizenship to be able to drink the water.
And the EPA will take over all of it because then it’ll be “wetlands” under the new CWA regs.
Lord, how did we get here?
I remember when the weather reporters started using the term EL NINO. There was a storm in September-November in north Kansas and southern Nebraska.
Our local weather chick stood out in the night air of NW Arkansas and said...”The question that is on everyone’s lips,” (then she turned to the camera with a look of HORROR on her face and said...) “IS THIS EL NINO?”
I wanted to throw a boot through the TV screen, but it wasn’t my TV.
That’s what they said last year.
We may see heavier rains this coming winter because there was a major volcanic eruption in Chile, which could disturb the normal southern summer jet stream patterns and could affect the northern winter jet stream patterns. The result is that the winter storm track could be like the winter of 2010-2011, where much of California ended up with around 200% of normal rain (they had to open up all five spill gates at Folsom Dam east of Sacramento, CA in early February 2011).
The perennial El Nino hype is most crap: Strong, weak, middling. Increasing, decreasing, staying the same. Could cause more rain, less rain. El Nino in, La Nina out. blah, blah, blah.
However, even with the dire warnings of more frequent and longer droughts (whatever the cause), you are still not hearing anything from state officials about increasing the water storage capacity (dams and reservoirs) or developing additional sources of water (pipelines or desalination plants). So I have a hard time believing that they really see this as anything other than an opportunity to impose more regulations and restriction on the citizens, gain more power and increase taxes and public spending.
(they had to open up all five spill gates at Folsom Dam east of Sacramento, CA in early February 2011).
Is that what this freeper was talking about? I've never heard of those nitwits (not that I would put it past them) dumping so much fresh water offshore. Is it really so?
go to Joe Bastardi’s weatherbell.com and listen to his Saturday report for 2 weeks ago. California will be getting rain in the next few months. Perhaps not as much as it needs, but more than it has been getting the past couple of years.