Posted on 10/10/2015 6:32:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Climatologists are predicting that this winter will be unusual across the country because of El Niño that is brewing in the Pacific Ocean.
“There’s no longer a possibility that El Niño wimps out at this point. It’s too big to fail,” Bill Patzert, a climatologist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the LA Times. “And the winter over North America is definitely not going to be normal.”
Scientists say El Niño is getting stronger because of rising sea-level ocean temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and a change of directions of the wind along the equator.
According to LA Times, that means that winter storms that normally drop rain in central America could shift north and move them over California and the southern United States.
Mike Halpert, the deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center, said this El Niño is the second strongest he’s seen at this time of the year.
“This could be one of the types of winters like in 1997-98,” Halpert said.
According to NOAA, the winter of 1997 was the second warmest and seventh wettest on record. Severe weather included flooding in the southeast and California, an ice storm in the northeast and tornadoes in Florida.
During that winter, Oklahoma had some of its warmest temperatures and wettest weather.
Patzert told the LA Times that while nothing is ever guaranteed, he is almost certain this El Niño will have an impact. In fact, he says even if temperatures were to start dropping now in the ocean, it would still impact precipitation this winter.
Marco Rubio.
El Nino is Spanish for... The Nino
I thought it meant the Boy King Hussein =)
Uh huh.....
And we will be deluged by a thousand hurricanes...
I would like to know what a normal winter is, just for starters...
'Bout 13 weeks....
OK......how much does a hen weigh...lol
In Orange County CA it has been unusually warm most of the summer, and now beyond.
Warmer than I can remember. Ever. Two heavy rains during the late summer, which is super rare here.
Good news is snow in the Sierras.
Him too, but more recently the Donald has taken to calling Rubio a boy.
Bring on the rain. It’s dry as the proverbial popcorn fart in the Central Valley of Kaleephornya.
Here’s some more for later...
At a movie theater which arm rest is yours?
What is Satan’s last name?
Do they bury people with their braces on?
If, in a baseball game, the batter hits a ball splitting it right down the center with half the ball flying out of the park and the other half being caught, what is the final ruling?
Why does grape flavor smell the way it is when actual grapes don’t taste or smell anything like it?
If a lesbian has sex with other women but never with another man is she still considered a virgin?
What’s the difference between normal ketchup and fancy ketchup?
When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?
In the song Yankee Doodle, is he calling the horse or the feather “macaroni”?
How can something be “new” and “improved”? if it’s new, what was it improving on?
If laughter is the best medicine, who’s the idiot who said they ‘died laughing’? (ooh ooh! nevermind i kno this 1! u can OVERDOSE! haha)
Why does the Easter bunny carry eggs? Rabbits don’t lay eggs.
Do siamese twins pay for one ticket or two tickets when they go to movies and concerts?
When lightning strikes the ocean why don’t all the fish die?
Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
What does PU stand for (as in “PU, that stinks!”)?
How do you handcuff a one-armed man?
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
Can you cry under water?
Why do they put holes in crackers?
What is another word for “thesaurus”?
So, it's happened before, huh?....and more than once.
yeah...exactly, which is what prompted me to ask what is a normal winter..
They’re saying that New England will have a warm winter. That’s OK with me. Less cost for heating. Last winter was pretty cold.
And why, if you punch 99 into a microwave oven you get over a minute and a half, but if you punch in 100 you only get a minute?
cuz..........the digital timer has too few decimal places....:-)
now if you could enter 100.00....it would be better...
But I have a old one with a crank dial on it....I just keep putting new magnetrons in it.
Actually it’s why we HAVEN’T been hit by hurricanes in the east. But the winter storms are going to suck...just like last year.
“If it was Monday, it meant we were closed”, last winter in Boston.
It was cold here in Arkansas too....not that it set any records, but it was colder for longer, and that caused the loss of a lot of tree branches, mostly the hardwoods like pecans.
The summer was cooler. We had only a couple days where the mercury crossed the 100 degree mark and just barely so.
We are now in the beginnings of a draught. No real rain for over a month. Everything is dead, or in hibernation early.
But it’s all happened before...The draught seems to be moving west from Alabama....they are getting the rain now...the weather is always in flux..
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