Posted on 09/22/2014 7:54:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — The anticipated blockbuster return of El Niño is looking more like it will be a flop, a climatologist said Monday.
Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory say that unless developing weak-to-modest El Niño conditions strengthen, California will continue to stay bone dry.
El Niño describes a weather pattern involving a warming of equatorial waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean, a condition that is associated with increased rainfall on the west coast of North America. El Niño conditions in 1997 and 1998 doubled rainfall up and down California, Patzert said.
“Those very strong El Niños happen every 30 or 40 years. Most are more modest and are not good forecasters of heavy rainfall,” he said.
Patzert said that if the ’97 event was a Godzilla El Niño , the weather pattern shaping up now in the eastern Pacific is more like “El Gecko.”
“It is not going to be a drought-buster,” he said.
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Said the man who can’t predict temperature or rainfall probabilities accurately for next weekend.
There may be a statistical correlation averaged over many years, but one can easily find annual rainfall levels that vary from wet to dry in both warm and cold marine winter temperature seasons. To base a forecast upon such variations is totally without merit.
Eff this guy, I say it’s gonna pour.
I have found over the clues of almost the same time frame and with my exhaustive study of rainfall. Some years you get rainsome years you don’t in Woo Cal we had near record rains about 9years ago
Do not believe what the elite would want you to believe. The last time they “prognosticated” like this they were wrong. The last drought brought predictions of seven years of rainfall before the reservoirs would be filled and the drought would end. It took one month of rain—known as the March miracle—and they all shut up. Now they are back. Stupid fools never correct themselves when they are wrong—that is why they are fools.
Drought conditions and forecast.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Drought/
It’s been raining its ass off here I’ve got over 5.6 inches today and we’re in the Desert Southwest!
That’s because of the hurricane that hit Cabo ended up in AZ!
So, let me see if I understand this right... It works in a natural cycle of highs and lows?
Sort of like how the rest of the environment works in a cycle of highs and lows?
And all of it is driven by solar cycles?
Gosh, Al Gore told me it was because I didn’t own a Pious!
“It’s been raining its ass off here I’ve got over 5.6 inches today and we’re in the Desert Southwest!”
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To where does the runoff from your rains drain?
We are in deep doo-doo if we don’t get a greater than average snow in the Sierra tehis year. The CA RATS are bat-sh*t crazy and getting crazier. They just finished releasing millions of acre-feet of water from reservoirs to the ocean hoping that they will lower the temperature of streams so they will be more comfortable for the salmon and other fishies.
This place has gone berserk and it’s only the beginning. When they have trashed CA the golden horde will rampage throughout the west bringing all the neighboring states down with them.
Mainly on the plains.....................................SORRY!
LOL!!! Ouch that hurts (I got the flu)
So much for the Billions spent on NASA Joe Bastardi of Weatherbell Analytics had this months ago.
I’m predicting lots of rain, lots of snow this winter...
END GLOBAL WEATHER!!!
And Governor Moonbeam wants to welcome even more illegals to the once Golden State...stay thirsty my friends.
Well in the case of my daughter in their basement and kitchen area. Debris are all over the roads.
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