Strongest El Nino in decades may mess with everything
By Brian K. Sullivan, BloombergBusiness
It has choked Singapore with smoke, triggered Pacific typhoons and left Vietnamese coffee growers staring nervously at dwindling reservoirs. In Africa, cocoa farmers are blaming it for bad harvests, and in the Americas, it has Argentines bracing for lower milk production and Californians believing that rain is finally, mercifully on the way.
El Nino is back and in a big way.
Its effects are just beginning in much of the world — for the most part, it hasn’t really reached North America — and yet it’s already shaping up potentially as one of the three strongest El Nino patterns since record-keeping began in 1950. It will dominate weather’s many twists and turns through the end of this year and well into next. And it’s causing gyrations in everything from the price of Colombian coffee to the fate of cold-water fish.
For those of you that moved here since the 2011 Winter…get ready for what it’s usually like around these parts.
-PRAY FOR SNOWPOCOLYPSE!!!
I remember going out of the second story windows here.
If you can’t get out emergency services can’t get in. If the electricity goes off most places will have no heat. Stores will have no food.
Be careful what you wish for.
BRING IT ON!! I’m ready for SNOWPOCOLYPSE are you?? I would guess most of our hearty Tahoans are. For all you other people who don’t like the snow or have moved to our town because you heard it has “mild winters”. Bye. Bye. Lake Tahoe is not for you.
-PRAY FOR SNOWPOCOLYPSE!!
It’s gonna rain like he!!
I’m praying for a snowpocolypse!!!
I, too, remember winters with snow to the 2nd story deck, our road down to a narrow 1 lane because there was nowhere else to put the snow, & in the early 80s when a blizzard closed the Basin for several days. Those who moved here in the last few years have no clue what a real Sierra winter is all about & will actually be in danger because of that. Still, we need the snow so let it come. And Robin, the emergency services will bust their butts to get to you if you really need help. People need to be aware & prepare to be self-sufficient & responsible for their own well-being for some period of time & not expect local governments to cater to your every whim.
We’ve had a number of excellent articles recently on possible impacts of El Niño on various parts of California. (The one I have found the clearest, with its excellent graphics, is climatologist Benjamin Hatchett’s article in the current Tahoe Quarterly, “El Niño 2015: What it Means for the Tahoe Basin.”)
I appreciate the article above for its broader perspective of the worldwide impacts of a strong El Niño.
The comments are interesting as well. I agree with Another X Local says that we Tahoans need to be prepared and ready.
Hope it keeps the stinking tourists out of my neighborhood, like the partying drunkards next door, this fine Sat. afternoon. I always enjoy sharing my weekends with the f….g tourists in the VHRs.
X-local??…how did you ever get “my every whim” out of that post?
That post was a caution
I am not an X-local still here.
Robin Smith is the same loudmouth teenager that spammed this forum previously-still a punk
Tea,
This Robin is not a teenager and I propose that my language on these posts does not indicate that I am;)
After 40 years up here …… I have learned not to believe anyone’s weather predictions.
Mother Nature has a way completely fizzling out or sneaking up behind us and slapping us in the head when we least expect it. That’s my prediction …..
I keep a back-up bottle of good Vodka in the cupboard just in case.