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El Niรฑo is here, and it’ll be ‘one storm after another like a conveyor belt’ | by LA Times

This year’s El Nino will mean โ€œmudslides, heavy rainfall, one storm after another like a conveyor belt.” – Bill Patzert, climatologist for NASAโ€™s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Caรฑada, CA This story by the LA Times will make you smile.ย  This article leans on Bill Patzert, climatologist for NASAโ€™s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Caรฑada, CA who says that this […]

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El Nino Won’t Show Up in California Until January Meteorologist Says

This year’s strong El Nino has already been called a Godzilla El Nino by NASA.ย  It’s hoped that it will bring drought relief in the form of rain and snow to California this winter. Great, so when will it all start?ย  According to meteorologist Mike Pecher, of Golden West Meteorology, it’s not going to get started until January.ย  January?ย  That’s […]

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Miles Clark | October 21, 2015
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NOAA VIDEO: What El Nino Means for California

NOAA just released a quick video update about the coming El Nino, Northern California, Southern California and how they’ll all interact this coming winter. In the past years, NOAA has been claiming that there have been 5 strong El Nino’s on record in California and that only one of them produced below average precipitation. In this video, they […]

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Strong El Nino Forecast for 2015/16 North American Winter:

The International Research Institute of Climate Sociology (IRI) based at Colombia University, NY released their latest El Nino update today and they are calling for a strong El Nino for winter 2015/16. That IRI El Nino update states two important things: A weak to moderate El Nino is currently occurring will continue until July, 2015 A moderate to strong El Nino will develop this summer and continue into 2016. We only have 5 strong El Ninos on record in Northern California and 4 out of 5 of them delivered above average precipitation in California. Once El Nino cools […]

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NOAA VIDEO: “What Does a Weak El Nino Mean for Northern California?”

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Winter 2014/15 will mostly likely be a weak El Nino winter. NOAA has finally answered the question we’ve all be wondering in Northern California: “What does a weak El Nino mean for Northern California?” This video answers that question basically by saying that they have no idea what is going to happen. Great. The real take away is that El Nino doesn’t mean above average precipitation. Not what we skiers and riders wanna hear. That said, some weak El Nino years are damn good in California. Just look at 1978 in the graph above. […]

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