Halpert said forecasters will have a better idea of the role that El Nino might – or might not – play in adding precipitation to California as the event develops into the winter months.
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The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration recorded unusual warmth in the Pacific Ocean in the last three months.
This El Nino is so strong a NOAA blog unofficially named it the “Bruce Lee” of El Ninos after the late movie action hero.
Patzert told the Times this could be more powerful than the 1997 El Niño, which is the strongest on record.
NOAA released the updated El Nino forecast on Thursday.
It’s not a normal el Nino, and Ruhf says that could mean nearly anything. “This fall and winter, we’ll have milder weather over B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba”.
“The real message is that it’s likely to be a strong event”, Halpert said of the El Nino pattern that will persist into next spring.
“It’s important to remember that just because something is favored (by forecasting models), doesn’t mean it will necessarily happen”, Halpert said, referring to the varied effects that could result from one region to the next. Periods of El Nino usually last about a year.
A firefighter snaps a photograph as the so-called Jerusalem Fire burns behind him in Lake County, Calif. earlier this week.
You know the old saying, you have to take the good with the bad.
Amid hopes of snow pelts and heavy rainfall in California these winters, there are uncertainties over the amount of drought-relief with the arrival of El Nino.
As Southern California bakes under a heat wave meteorologists are betting on a wet and wild winter driven by an El Nino of biblical proportions.
Ryan Jacobsen, executive director of the Fresno County Farm Bureau, said farmers aren’t fooled by a common misconception that El Nino always translates into a wet winter.
“The out-of-state political spending clearly had no impact on my decision”, said Tester, whose 2012 re-election bid was one of the most costly in the country – in a state with an low-priced media market. “We’ve been seeing many more thunderstorms than usual”, Redmond said.
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Meanwhile, 18 Senate Democrats and two allied Independents have said they’ll vote to preserve the agreement, more than halfway toward the 34 they’d need to sustain a veto. It’s a possibility that Arizona could get heavy storms like that before this monsoon season is over.
