"Can you grow weed in El Nino years? Let's find out."

Some douchnozzle just up the street from me at NOAA reports:

"This year's El Niño is shaping up to be a whopper potentially surpassing the one in 1997, which was the strongest on record, the National Weather Service says.

That could be good news for drought-stricken California, but not-so-good for places such as the Philippines and Indonesia, which typically experience below-normal rainfall or drought conditions during El Niños.

NWS' Climate Prediction Center said today that all of its computer models are now predicting a strong El Niño, or warming in the Pacific, that will peak in the late fall or early winter. The announcement confirms signs that have been around for weeks telegraphing that this El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), as it is officially known, would be a particularly strong one."

Yes, trust ye ol' computer model for "whoppers" especially when a over-paid government agency wants more grant money.  They have a "bitchin'" computer graphic that says so much


""This definitely has the potential of being the Godzilla El Niño," Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, says, adding that the signal from the Pacific Ocean "right now is stronger than it was in 1997," the year of the most powerful El Niño on record.

Climatologists say there's a greater than 90 percent chance that El Niño will continue through the Northern Hemisphere winter 2015-16 and around an 85 percent chance it will last into early spring 2016.

"If this lines up to its potential, this thing can bring a lot of floods, mudslides and mayhem," he said."

Wow. Mayhem. Now is it me or does NOAA like to scare people based on nothing more than inaccruare computer models and confusing double speak "Hey, it's mayhem but you know, mayhem will be good for the Californian drought." 

"El Niño brings drier weather to the western Pacific. It also tends to suppress hurricane formation in the Atlantic and increase it in the eastern and central Pacific."

Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't this already been happening since 2012?

"The L.A. Times writes:

    "Already, El Niño is being blamed for drought conditions in parts of the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia, as occurred in 1997-98.

    "Drought is also persistent in Central America. Water levels are now so low in the waterways that make up the Panama Canal that officials recently announced limits on traffic through the passageway that links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

    "El Niño also influenced the heavy rainstorms that effectively ended drought conditions in Colorado, Texas and Oklahoma."

So with the violent, damaging thunderstorms that I've seen this summer does this mean they will only grow worse OR...nothing at all. So climate change as usual?

I detest NOAA.

Marla wrote on Aug 14^th, 2015 at 1:46pm:


Sory Marla..but isn't that idea very very stupid??

lee wrote on Aug 14^th, 2015 at 1:55pm:


whereas your mini ice age is pure fact based on hard science

grow up lee, apologise and leave

Chimp_Logic wrote on Aug 16^th, 2015 at 5:05pm:


Don't hold your breath monkey man. And ordering other posters to write apologies just makes you look like a self-important fool.

lee wrote on Aug 14^th, 2015 at 1:55pm:


In Australia its simple.

Shower surf. Shower snow. Less showers for farmers. Slightly warmer weather. not that complex from a meta point of view.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/updates/images/a008-fig2-soi-vs-rain.png

You're so semantic, lee.

Almost makes me want to read what you have to say.*i





*Almost.

Marla, Obviously you do, to enable such meaningful comments.