El Nino meets ‘the blob’ — but will it help?
By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal
There’s El Nino, and then there’s “the blob.”
Both are phenomena associated with warm water in the Pacific. Both could have some impact on the weather, including building hopes for a big winter that might help pull the West out of protracted drought.
No one really knows.
“This is a little bit of an unprecedented situation,” said Kelly Redmond, deputy director of the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno. “It’s like two sets of dice that influence the atmosphere. But do these sets of dice have a string connecting them?”
El Nino is characterized by warmer-than-normal surface water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific stretching from the coast of Peru to west of the international dateline. After a year of anticipation, conditions came together last March for an El Nino to be officially declared, with scientists now saying there’s a better than 90 percent chance the condition will stick around into next winter.
Hopefully El Nino brings in some much needed snow.We sure could use it here and the rest of the state as well.
Let’s kick tnis droughts butt with a big winter!
Get your firewood stacked and coveed and stock up on some cans of soup, chlli and cornbead fxins and some panckae mix.
Let’s hope for a big snow,just like in the old days
Deep snow, Old Long Skiis
After living in Tahoe for 40 years, I have found that big winters in Tahoe are usually preceded by big winters in South America and cloudy summers in Tahoe. Right now, my friends in Portillo are reporting a huge dump with 4 feet already and another 4 feet on the way. This summer has been especially cloudy with significant precipitation in normally dry months. I’ve spoken to other locals and they also see a big winter ahead, although much of our precipitation could come as rain. Still, Heavenly and Kirkwood are high enough for us to get some awesome blower powder. I’m starting my ski conditioning training early and so should you!
Keep those positive thoughts and those cornbread fixns at the ready ~ sounds good!!
Tune up the good old snow blower. If what you have is the Armstrong style then see Liberule and his “wifey” to tune the old shovel. Dam*, the kokanee need to start running so that I get a life.