As El Nino grows, drought-stricken California braces for wild winter weather

Los Angeles Times ^ | August 12, 2015 | By Rong-Gong Lin II

[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. . .

[Conservative4Ever]

I remember that El Niño. It RAINED. SoCal rainy season usually runs from Jan/Feb through April. It started in Dec and went into May if my memory is correct. For the rest of the country, that is a big deal here in SoCal. This is a desert land. And we don’t normally get rain other then in the winter/rainy season.

[SamAdams76]

I was in the Marines that year and stationed on Camp Pendleton. Spent a lot of time in Oceanside area. Those rains were something else. Coming from New England, I was used to stormy weather in the winter time but I remember those rains just being relentless. Besides, one does not expect so much rain in sunny California.

I hope they get drenched again this coming winter. They need it.

[HereInTheHeartland]

The most conservative person I know is a woman who lives in San Francisco.
She is fighting the good fight there.

[Rio]

El Nino is making for a FANTASTIC albacore season in Oregon.

[Mastador1]

They won’t prepare since Brown doesn’t know what he’s doing.

Moonbeam, like the rest of his family has always known what he is doing...............the best he can to destroy the economy of and subjugate the people of California for the glory of gaia..............and queerdom.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Like, OH MY GOD! (Valley Girl)
Like-TOTALLY (Valley Girl)
Enchino is like SO BITCHEN (Valley Girl)
There’s like the Galleria (Valley Girl)
And like all these like really great shoe stores
I love going into like clothing stores and stuff
I like buy the neatest mini-skirts and stufl
It’s like so BITCHEN cuz like everybody’s like
Super-super nice...
It’s like so BITCHEN..,

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

IF El Nino and the rest of the Ninos take out Los Angeles and Hollywood, Oakland, even San Francisco, it will be worth the price of a clean-up.

Rain, Baby, Rain!

Songs:

For CALIFORNIA:

“HEATWAVE” - Martha and the Vandellas
“Farenheit 451” - book

“Baby the rain must fall” - Glen Campbell
“Raindrops keep falling on my head” - BJ Thomas
“What have they done to the rain?” - CCR
“It’s raining in my heart” - Slim Coleman?
“Drip Drop” - Dion
“Raindrops, tiny little raindrops” - Dee Clark
“Rhythm of the Rain” - Cascades
“I feel? the rains down in Africa” - Toto
“Splish, Splash” - Bobby Darren, ok it’s not about rain but what the heck, it’s about water
“I think it might rain” - 4 Tops?
“Horse with no name” -America, “out in the desert there is no rain”
“The rains in Spain stay mainly in the plains” - “My Fair Lady”. By jove, I think she’s got it (Rex Harrison as Dr. Doolittle)

“Noah” - Bill Cosby’s comedy routine. Now that was a rain!

Groups:
Peppermint Rainbow
Randy and the Rainbows?

[DanielRedfoot]

There are some real scoundrels and nare-do-wells in North Dakota…. those bastards! ……./S ;- )

[Patriot Babe]

Exactly! you hit the nail on the head.

[Patriot Babe]

How can you forget:

Albert Hammond “It Never Rains in Southern California”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmq4WIjQxp0

[Conservative4Ever]

Thanks for your good thoughts. Yes, we need the rain.

[Mike Darancette]

We’ll see what Joe Bastardi sez. I’ll bet the el Nino will be moderated by the blob of warm water off the West coast.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Thanks. Brings back memories.

[kaehurowing]

“Then again, perhaps of California’s wickedness, they won’t get any rain.”

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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I wouldn’t restrict my comments to California. Folks here need to look around them. Whether it’s natural disasters, economic destruction, political corruption, you name it, this country is basically in a state of collapse. It’s under God’s judgment, and unless this nation repents from its wickedness, it’s going to get much, much worse.

This country is only operating at half the level it was in 2008. We have real unemployment of something like 20%. We have millions of babies being murdered, cut up and sold, and our government encourages it and uses our money to support it. We have folks rioting in the streets, again being encouraged by our government. We have people losing their jobs, businesses and homes for their religious beliefs, while our media extols folks who rob liquor stores and attack policemen and calls them martyrs. The Deceiver and his allies feed us lies every day which are easily proven false, and yet everyone is deceived into thinking things are just great.

[trebb]

More mansions to slide off their precarious (but scenic) precipices - dang the weather caused by that glo-bul warming.

[SpinnerWebb]

Thanks... now I gotta pee.