El Niño to Bring Drought Relief

[longknife]

And bring about floods and lots and lots of mudslides. When the current wildfires burn out, there will be no cover to hold back the waters and we'll see homes falling into once dry riverbeds and others sliding down the hills where they should've never been built in the first place.


Read more of the prediction @ Latest forecast suggests apos Godzilla El Ni o apos may be coming to California - LA Times

Greg McCown on Twitter This evening just before sunset I finally got the shot I ve been trying to get for years. http t.co JFJG4vlAb3
El Niño Could Rank Among Strongest on Record

Yet another scientific predicition of what MIGHT come if so and so continues @ El Ni o Could Rank Among Strongest on Record


Meanwhile, yesterday and last evening here in Southern Nevada, we had some tremendous thunder storms with as much as one inch of rain falling in some areas in a HALF HOUR.

 

[waltky]

No major hurricanes in 119 months...

NOAA: Hurricane Drought Hits Record 119 Months
September 24, 2015 | As of today, no major hurricanes, defined as Category 3 or above, have struck the continental U.S. in a record-breaking 119 months, according to hurricane data kept by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hurricane Research Division (HRC) dating back to 1851.

Last year, President Obama warned that hurricanes will become “more common and more devastating” because of climate change. But Obama is now the longest serving president (since the 1851 start of NOAA's data) not to see a major hurricane strike the U.S. during his time in office. He is also the first president since Benjamin Harris was in office 122 years ago to have no major hurricane strike during his term. The last major hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. mainland was Hurricane Wilma, which came ashore on October 24, 2005. That year was one of the most active hurricane seasons in recorded history, according to NOAA.

Hurricane Wilma, which came ashore on Oct. 24, 2005, was the last major hurricane to make landfall in the continental U.S.

Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma all wreaked havoc on the U.S. during an intense two-month period between August 29 and October 24 of 2005. However, during the nearly 10 years since Wilma struck the U.S., no major hurricanes have made landfall and none are expected by the end of the current hurricane season. According to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, major hurricanes classified as Category 3 or above have sustained wind speeds of more than 111 miles per hour and are capable of causing “devastating” or “catastrophic” damage. The previous record was an eight-year span during the 1860's in which no major hurricanes struck the U.S. The current hurricane drought is “a rare event” that is “unprecedented in the historical record,” according to Timothy Hall, a hurricane researcher at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Hall also said there is only a 39 percent chance that the current hurricane drought will end next year. Researchers at the Centre for Marine Sciences at the University of the West Indies traced hurricane activity over the past 1,000 years by studying sediment deposits in Jamaica’s Grape Tree Pond, which gets very little precipitation outside of hurricane season. “Our results corroborate evidence for the increasing trend of hurricane activity during the Industrial Era; however, we show that contemporary activity has not exceeded the range of natural climate variability exhibited during the last millennium,” according to a paper published August 5 in Nature.

NOAA: Hurricane Drought Hits Record 119 Months

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Everyone here seems to be counting on this El Nino to relieve the drought, but in order to actually have any significant effect, the storms will have to get far enough inland and north to drop some snow on the Sierras.

I guess we'll see. I'm prepared to move out of California in the next year or so, if the drought doesn't get better.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

No major hurricanes in 119 months...

NOAA: Hurricane Drought Hits Record 119 Months
September 24, 2015 | As of today, no major hurricanes, defined as Category 3 or above, have struck the continental U.S. in a record-breaking 119 months, according to hurricane data kept by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hurricane Research Division (HRC) dating back to 1851.

Last year, President Obama warned that hurricanes will become “more common and more devastating” because of climate change. But Obama is now the longest serving president (since the 1851 start of NOAA's data) not to see a major hurricane strike the U.S. during his time in office. He is also the first president since Benjamin Harris was in office 122 years ago to have no major hurricane strike during his term. The last major hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. mainland was Hurricane Wilma, which came ashore on October 24, 2005. That year was one of the most active hurricane seasons in recorded history, according to NOAA.

Hurricane Wilma, which came ashore on Oct. 24, 2005, was the last major hurricane to make landfall in the continental U.S.

Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma all wreaked havoc on the U.S. during an intense two-month period between August 29 and October 24 of 2005. However, during the nearly 10 years since Wilma struck the U.S., no major hurricanes have made landfall and none are expected by the end of the current hurricane season. According to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, major hurricanes classified as Category 3 or above have sustained wind speeds of more than 111 miles per hour and are capable of causing “devastating” or “catastrophic” damage. The previous record was an eight-year span during the 1860's in which no major hurricanes struck the U.S. The current hurricane drought is “a rare event” that is “unprecedented in the historical record,” according to Timothy Hall, a hurricane researcher at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Hall also said there is only a 39 percent chance that the current hurricane drought will end next year. Researchers at the Centre for Marine Sciences at the University of the West Indies traced hurricane activity over the past 1,000 years by studying sediment deposits in Jamaica’s Grape Tree Pond, which gets very little precipitation outside of hurricane season. “Our results corroborate evidence for the increasing trend of hurricane activity during the Industrial Era; however, we show that contemporary activity has not exceeded the range of natural climate variability exhibited during the last millennium,” according to a paper published August 5 in Nature.

NOAA: Hurricane Drought Hits Record 119 Months

...because of global warming, amiright?

 

[flacaltenn]

Everyone here seems to be counting on this El Nino to relieve the drought, but in order to actually have any significant effect, the storms will have to get far enough inland and north to drop some snow on the Sierras.

I guess we'll see. I'm prepared to move out of California in the next year or so, if the drought doesn't get better.

Another Cali refugee throws in the dry towel.. Be glad to show you some beautiful Hillbilly Hollywood homes. Twice as big at 1/3 the price.. And we got water AND some snow.

If the Sierra DO have a healthy ski season this year -- I'll be back to Sierra Ski Ranch and Alpine this spring with the money I've saved by leaving Cali...

 

[hjmick]

Everyone here seems to be counting on this El Nino to relieve the drought, but in order to actually have any significant effect, the storms will have to get far enough inland and north to drop some snow on the Sierras.

I guess we'll see. I'm prepared to move out of California in the next year or so, if the drought doesn't get better.

I got out six years ago, no regrets. Having lived there for more than thirty-four years I now they'll need about the equivalent of three or four years worth of snow plus two years of very wet El Niños to make a difference.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Everyone here seems to be counting on this El Nino to relieve the drought, but in order to actually have any significant effect, the storms will have to get far enough inland and north to drop some snow on the Sierras.

I guess we'll see. I'm prepared to move out of California in the next year or so, if the drought doesn't get better.

I got out six years ago, no regrets. Having lived there for more than thirty-four years I now they'll need about the equivalent of three or four years worth of snow plus two years of very wet El Niños to make a difference.

I have no real attachment to California anyway - I moved out here for work and school, but I'm still an east coaster at heart.