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[Robert357]

thank you, What I have observed is that El Nino is correlated to drought in the PNW. What I have seen is a shift in the jet stream to the south so that most of the ocean storm systems miss Washington and the Low Canadian Rockies and the water from the storms hits N. California, and into Colorado. The correlation is not strong, but it is still there and sometimes results in poor power production from snowmelt in the Canadian & Upper US Rockies that feeds the Snake and Columbia Rivers.