This year’s El Nino would be mild, resembling the pattern of 2006 and 2007, weather experts said in remarks published on Sunday.Oh well, back we go to living in a desert.
The oscillation of hot water in the eastern Pacific Ocean is going to be a let-down, in terms of precipitation over a parched California, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) researcher Bill Patzert told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
“This El Nino is definitely puny,” Patzert said , adding that this year’s pattern resembles the mild El Nino of 2006-2007, which left California’s snowpack and reservoirs short of what water experts had coveted: an end to five years of drought.
Although the jet stream pattern still shows that California might get a wet winter, the likelihood of floods and massive rains is diminishing, the paper quoted climatologists as saying.
“We’re planning for a dry 2010,” said Elissa Lynn, senior meteorologist for the state Department of Water resources, in an interview with the paper.
Monday, September 21, 2009
El Niño Becomes El No-no
Looks like the hopes of significant rains in the very dry west are...well, drying up:
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Well we all known how accurate "experts" are. One thing an "expert" states that makes me suspicious is that we're in a five year drought. That would put the start of the drought in the Winter of 2004-05, the year that, if I remember had record rainfall.
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