Posted on 08/12/2015 5:36:52 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
or months, scientists have been saying that the El Niño weather pattern this winter could finally put a dent in California's four-year drought.
Given the stakes, there is likely going to be much focus Thursday when the latest El Niño forecast is released.
The forecast is scheduled to be announced publicly at 6 a.m. PDT by the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center. Officials are to hold a conference call at 9 a.m. to discuss it.
Experts have said the evidence is growing stronger for a huge El Niño that would dump heavy -- perhaps historic -- rain in Southern California and maybe into Northern California as well.
There's a favorable chance that this winter will be wetter than average in much of California -- from San Diego to San Francisco.
But there’s only an equal chance of a wetter-than-average rainy season north of San Francisco, where much of the state’s water supply is collected and stored in giant reservoirs. California needs rain and snow up there. Snow slowly melting from the mountains is essential to recharging our reservoirs when the weather turns dry later in the spring.
How can scientists make these forecasts about the winter half a year ahead of time?
We’ve had experience with El Niño, a weather phenomenon characterized by the warming of Pacific Ocean waters west of Peru that causes changes in the atmosphere and can dramatically alter weather worldwide.
In the two strongest El Niños on record, 1982-83 and 1997-98, the phenomenon has meant a series of storms pelting California. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Then again, perhaps of California’s wickedness, they won’t get any rain.
The news media will pivot, right on cue to mud slides on fire scarred hillsides and levee breaks along the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. We’ve seen it before (1958) when I was a school kid riding the bus through flowing water and in subsequent El Nino years. What’s old is new again to those who have never experienced the drought/wet cycles of my former homeland.
Just stop it.
Or it may rain for 40 days and 40 nights.
Wishing you all the rain y’all need. God showed us mercy this May.
California; per capita; is no more wicked than any other state.
IF that were true, D.C. would already have burned to the ground. Most of the planet would be on fire.
God didn't give us free will just to turn around and interfere with it.
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That “forecast” was also issued each of the past two years.
Each state has good areas and bad areas, good people and bad people. You are absolutely correct.
Knee jerk attacks on other states are not beneficial to keeping our nation together and whole.
Going by recent activities, MISSOURI is now an 'evil' state (due to Ferguson-Michael Brown). It's been pretty wet here.
The drought is caused by gobal warming. The floods will also be caused by global warming
I’m hoping. We need some massive mudslides this winter.
I’ll believe it when I see it...
Until then...
Really .. I live in CA and I never heard them talking about it until this year .. and then they showed us the maps which confirm that something is going on with our weather for this winter.
Interesting.
I don’t care if it rains every day .. Not that important to me.
But this year we have a large mass of warm water sitting out in the Pacific, and that’s the engine that will give us an el nino.
Moon Unit is going to be 48 years old this year. Where has the time gone.
You forgot the outpouring of skittles over their land. As a CA resident, I too, get tired of the slams.
They won’t prepare since Brown doesn’t know what he’s doing. Then blame the Republicans when CA gets flushed in to the Pacific ocean.
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