El Niño could bring drought relief to California – Or disaster
Posted on 08/12/2015 9:54:01 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
The trend is significantly increasing the chances that storms will drench California this winter, according to a new report released by federal scientists.
They say conditions are lining up in ways not seen since the winter of 1997-98, when downpours filled reservoirs and sent rivers raging during the last major El Niño.The chances are now “greater than 90 percent” that El Niño conditions that began in March will remain through this winter, according to the monthly El Niño report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_28458401/california-drought-el-nino-weather-event-is-biggest
Thanks to Marcus Muraca for this link.
“It is interesting to note the warm spots along the west coasts of Canadian and Northern USA, and even a line near Alaska,” says Marcus. “I wonder how much of the ocean warming is from the volcano off the US west coast. It is very possible that the circular line near Alaska could be from a volcano since it seems to start from the volcanic Aleutian island chain.”
“Of course, they make claims of ‘could be one of the strongest on record’, but like always, the “Keyword” is ‘Could’.”
I believe this because we’ve had some uncharacteristic humidity and July rainfall. I felt these were different things to be going on in CA.
If we get heavy rains, you can bet your bottom buck that the bureaucrats will say that they won’t alleviate the drought. They will relent only when severe flooding begins.
Considering how bad the drought has been for CA, it’ll be fun to watch how much rain falls throughout the winter and decreases or reverses it.
Obama’s fault.
No sh*t! I don’t think I’ve ever seen July rain like this in my 57 years living here.
And guess what they blame it all on?
I hope El nino brings lots of rain and lots of snow this year....our water table is really low.....
Well as Johnny Carson like to say the mudslides will put out the wildfires .....
If it rains way too much expect flooding and landslides, but on the positive side all of the reservoirs and the water tables will rise.
And Babs will be able to water her lawn again.
I will wait and see what Joe Bastardi has to say this Saturday. So far he says it will not be a super El Nino. The waters around Australia are not right for the big Westerlies.
“Considering how bad the drought has been for CA, it’ll be fun to watch how much rain falls throughout the winter and decreases or reverses it.”
It’s really the size of the Sierra snowpack rather than the amount of rain we get that will determine whether or not the drought decreases.
Not unusual at all.
Having spent my life in the construction business, the remnants of Mexican hurricanes comes through so. California pretty regurally during the last 75 years.
The collectivists in CA will manage to make a great mess of it, wet or dry.
We bought our house on the SF Peninsula in ‘83 where it normally rains Nov-Apr, then six months bone dry and clear skies. The people who sold us our house moved up to the hills and had a roofing company come in to replace the roof. They ripped off the old roof and, is custom here where it never rains in summer, left the house wide open to the skies overnight. Sure enough, that was the ONE August night when we ha a torrential downpour. Completely ruined the house and all furniture and belongings. They did get a new house out of it courtesy of the roofing company’s insurance.
Well if we are heading into an ice age with colder polar air, there still has to be a mechanism to build mile high glacier sheets. If the sun warmed equatorial waters stay in the equator, that energy could be the mechanism. When the Earth warms, equatorial waters flow poleward and deeper. When the Earth cools, equator waters stay in the equatorial region and generate more water vapor and clouds. The polar regions and deep regions do not receive the warmed equator water. The snow levels will break many records this winter. And of course the retarded progressives will blame global warming. This is a water planet and what happens in the atmosphere is insignificant when you examine energy density.
“If we get heavy rains, you can bet your bottom buck that the bureaucrats will say that they won’t alleviate the drought.”
Why you ask? Well, it’s because government jobs are at stake. The last time we had a major shift, the Drought Office became the Flood Relief Office in a matter of weeks. It’s always about “them,” not us!
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