LA Times: Forecast says ‘Godzilla El Nino’ may be coming
LA Times reports today: The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once-in-a-generation storms this winter to drought-parched California.
The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday that all computer models are now predicting a strong El Niño to peak in the late fall or early winter. A host of observations have led scientists to conclude that “collectively, these atmospheric and oceanic features reflect a significant and strengthening El Niño.”
“This definitely has the potential of being the Godzilla El Niño,” said Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge.
Overall, the Climate Prediction Center forecast a greater-than-90% chance that El Niño will continue through this winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and about an 85% chance it will last into the early spring.
In California, officials have cautioned the public against imagining that El Niño will suddenly end the state’s chronic water challenges. A forecast is never a sure thing, they say.
Read the full story in the LA Times.
Really hoping the public at large is taking this seriously and is weatherproofing homes and properties. With extreme drought means there's been no ground cover and if we do indeed get the rain they're speaking about it has the potential of being disasterous should people not take precautions.
Really hoping the public at large is taking this seriously and is weatherproofing homes and properties. With extreme drought means there's been no ground cover and if we do indeed get the rain they're speaking about it has the potential of being disasterous should people not take precautions.
Time to build that Ark!
Let us hope and pray that our commuters will be smart and slow down on the Cuesta Grade during the coming storms
Really hoping the public at large is taking this seriously and is weatherproofing homes and properties. With extreme drought means there's been no ground cover and if we do indeed get the rain they're speaking about it has the potential of being disasterous should people not take precautions.
Really hoping the public at large is taking this seriously and is weatherproofing homes and properties. With extreme drought means there's been no ground cover and if we do indeed get the rain they're speaking about it has the potential of being disasterous should people not take precautions.
Time to build that Ark!
Let us hope and pray that our commuters will be smart and slow down on the Cuesta Grade during the coming storms