"Government forecasters issued an alert Thursday saying there’s a 50 percent chance that warming El Niño conditions will develop during the summer or autumn — potentially bringing rain to drought-stricken California and the South, as well as fewer hurricanes along the East Coast and higher temperatures across the globe.
The last El Niño watch was in 2012, although it fizzled out unexpectedly, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
But when the weather phenomenon struck in 1997-98, it was blamed for all sorts of calamities, from devastating floods in South America to droughts in Southeast Asia.
The El Niño cycle can take up to seven years to develop as weak trade winds allow warmer water from the Pacific to move east as part of a climate event that usually sticks around nine months to a year."
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California could use the rain (although too much and they get mud slides).
We need it. The totalitarians out here in CA are chomping at the bit with this drought. They are salivating at the prospect of making all kinds of water use illegal and hiring people to enforce it. Few of these efforts ever make much of a difference since what they take from some people they simply give out to others in exchange for money and support. They just love a crisis so they can do stuff and have a purpose in life, which always ends up being telling someone else how to live. Save us, mother nature, from "our friends" who "serve" us.
Beyond that, we really do need the rain. Our mountains are so barren from fires and drought that there are very few places locally to go now to be in the woods.
They just love a crisis so they can do stuff and have a purpose in life, which always ends up being telling someone else how to live.
Bago has it right. The 'drought' is yet another excuse for a water grab and to put more restrictions on commerce, agriculture, building and anything else that would benefit people.
In the mid 70's we had a similar drought then wet weather pattern. Yes. I am old enough to remember this. The reservoirs were all drying up and the 'greenies' (they weren't called that then but it is the same loons) were all wringing their hands about the apocalypse of no water and that it would take years.....YEARS we tell you!!....to get back the water reserves. Well, it started raining that spring and we were soon floating in water. The reservoirs were so full that they had to begin releasing water early.
Everything comes in cycles. The weather. Dry. Wet. Hot. Cold. We have no control over this. The environmentalists never seem to understand this concept or our place in the world. Small, insignificant and subservient to nature. Live with it.
Did el Niño #getcovered?
Tough crowd.
Doesn't man made global climate change and CO2 trump El Nino?
I read it in a pamphlet.
Bilingual puns are tough, Lem.
People better cracking in Spanish. Mejico is here.
I got a pair of boots at Walmart yesterday and it included the Mexican size. NTTAWWT
DBQ
"Everything comes in cycles."
Including ice ages.
I might have to reconsider San Diego next winter. I was out here on a vacation the last big one in the 90's, it sucked. The strength is the key, we've experienced weak to moderate and it's not that bad.
So, they can only predict a 50% chance of a major cyclical warming trend within a year, but want us to spend billions to prevent a warming they're predicting next century?
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