Posted on 05/15/2019 7:52:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
California is being targeted by a monster El Niño Storm that will bring seven days of torrential rain, up to three feet of mountain snow, and may cause an Oroville Dam overflow.
A period of strengthening trade winds that seemed set to end this year’s El Niño that brought a record 188 percent of average snow pack to California’s Sierra Mountains, reversed in mid-April to surge a bloom of heated water along the Equatorial Pacific and reawaken a late season El Niño that has a 70 probability of lasting through the summer.
The upper atmosphere jet stream normally blows east to west at about 100 miles per hour across the Pacific Equator bringing torrential rains to Polynesia before curving up Asia, curving past Japan to Alaska and dropping down along the West Coast. But the jet stream has radically bent down and accelerated to 200 miles an hour to directly target California with the full load of Polynesia’s monsoon rains beginning on Wednesday.
Rainfall for the month of May normally averages just a quarter inch in Los Angeles and a half inch in San Francisco. But this storm is expected to dump at least 1 to 2 inches along the coasts, 4 inches inland, and up to 36 inches of snow at higher elevations.
The surprise storm-train, coming as all four Northern California reservoirs along the Sierras are already filled to 94 percent of capacity, will require opening their spillway gates, potentially flooding valley croplands and large population centers downstream.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
First I have heard of this. More ammo for the AOC crowd that we must stop global bull!
I wonder if a rain tax will be implemented in the near future.
Wait for LA TIME story to ensue.
California is being targeted by a monster El Niño Storm car washes shut down illegals hit hardest.................................
LOL! I know right? Cold here, warm there. Where will it end?
From 2/9/18 LiveScience.com, “But a pattern of ever-decreasing sunspots over recent solar cycles resembles patterns from the past that proceeded grand-minimum events”. “Solar Cooling”, people. Here in Virginia, mainly overcast sky’s for months, cooler temperatures.... Just saying... NBD! It is called “weather”.
I heard that a few ski resorts in California will be open until July 4th... Could we have year round skiing?
Yeah but CA FReepers donate the most to FR! That’s the response you’ll get from CA FReepers when you pick on their state.
Good thing California has prepared to take advantage of this rainfall bounty by aggressively expanding water storage capacity.
Oh, wait...
Odd. We are NOT in an El Nino period of the ENSO cycle.
A writer can “say” anything he/she/it wants to say about the weather, but this just another (albeit rare) mid-May California snowstorm.
Now, if you want unusual, look for a mid-June snowstorm.
But those mid-July snowstorms in the Sierras? A sign of early fall? Or late winter?
188% ping
#12 The state politicians have passed regulations that you cannot use more then 50 gallons a day. Politicians and fountains in front of gov’t buildings of course will be exempted.
https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-me-water-efficiency-bill-20180601-story.html
Artificial shortage.
Yes climaggedon is upon us. CO2 has risen to a level last seen 2/100 of a single percent of the planets timeline ago. So long ago that Wooly Mamouths still roamed the land. Wait a minute. Climate change killed the Wooly Mamouths. There is your proof of global warming.
Not Me,,,
Give what You Can!
I’m leaving as soon
As I find the Light switch!
LOL back east that’s called a storm front.
Get with the program ...
The current lies are called “Climate Change” which after the falsehood being obvious to even moron, was changed to be vague enough for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to be contained under the new label.
Same charlatans/frauds and criminal liars are pushing this agenda under the new name. Someday they will all have their heads pushed into their own poisonous agenda’s crap which they have spewed.
“Global Lying” ....
“But this storm is expected to dump at least 1 to 2 inches along the coasts, 4 inches inland, and up to 36 inches of snow at higher elevations”
Hyperventilate much? A month ago this would have been a shoulder schrugger.
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