Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Bring on El Nino...

Reading Dr. Master's blog today (weatherunderground) made me feel encouraged that this year's Hurricane Season will see way below normal/average total number of storms. It appears an El Nino is developing over the EASTERN Pacific, and as the Doc explains, that means fewer than normal storms. I hope that's true as it'll give the Corps another season to keep building stronger structures & levees while the state gets more into rebuilding our coast. Several words of caution...1992 was an El Nino year...remember Hurricane Andrew. It only takes one storm to make it a bad year IF that storm hits us. But, there are NO signs of any tropical activity here for the next 7-10 days. Yo El Nino...bring it on !

As an upper disturbance pulls away, our rain chances should be less on Thursday and even less for Fri-Tuesday of next week. We'll be back into the 95-100 range as shower chances drop to 10-20%.

2 comments:

ONLYREAL said...

Don't forget 2004. That was an El Nino Year too...

Barbara said...

1965 was also an El Nino year, as was 1969, 2002, and of course 1992, and probably others I'm not thinking of at this moment. In other words, El Nino isn't really much protection, and is praised way more than it deserves, which probably causes a lot of people to let their guards down whether we like it or not. Sorry, but this is getting to be a big pet peeve of mine.

Even if El Nino actually were protection against hurricanes, it also can bring us a lot of other types of nasty destructive weather, so forgive me if I can't see it as a good thing.