Who lives in the southwest and California? If you live in this region or have been keeping up with the weather reports, then you will have notice were below on rainfall. I have been doing extensive research, and discovered La Nina is playing a role. Temperatures have unusually warm and dry conditions while the Pacific Northwest is wet and cooler. This is an evident process of La Nina. I do expect La Nina to strengthen by the end of this month at moderate stage.
This is a link to the SST data and you can see La Nina formation
La Nina is hurting my friend’s productivity on crops in the California valley. This is a problem. So what you think California should do about our water supplies. Water supplies are good now, but if no precipitation occurs, then it could become scarce.
Queensland had the options of dams in certain areas and for political expediency, they dumped one in particular, which would’ve been build and mostly full by now.
These days we’re in level 5 water restrictions in this corner of Queensland due to the lack of rain and our water storage dams dropping to less than 20%, and are suddenly rushing to push through new dams and seawater to potable water facilities, along with water conservation methods, however all of these things take a long time to put in to effect or a generational change for others.
In short, like all governments, they wait until it is way too late to take action to overcome the issues now experienced.
Yeah, we’re hoping to get some more, but as you said it ain’t likely before the next rainy season… although a few people reckon there might be big lot of rain still to come by May, but I doubt it myself.
La Nina is what us in Australian Agriculture are praying for!
almost 7 years of drought and for that to happen you have 7 years of below average rainfall, but the average gets lower each year as the annual rain decreases… This year has been the worst, we normal have an average of 700mm per year this year however… just 312mm!
As much as I hope it doesnt hurt CA, Bring on La Nina because we have had enough of El Nino!
Wow I’m surprised La Nina is not drenching Australia with rain. Don’t worry you guys should be picking up on precipitation real soon because La Nina is forecasted to stay around for another 10 to 13 months with moderate intensity. I’m surprised Australia is not feeling any affects of La Nina. 8O
But that rain should be arriving soon. Because in the US the jet stream has been to our north for the past month and two weeks. And, for the US this is a typical La Nina pattern.
The abnormal cooling of the Eastern Pacific has been present for the past several months. The mild La Nina is expected to briefly reach moderate stage; therefore, expect current weather pattern to continue. This year's La Nina spells trouble in the Atlantic as increased hurricane activity will be a high possibility. During most La Nina hurricanes are most active, because the jet stream shifts further north. 2007 is expecting to be one of the most active hurricane seasons since 2005 when 27 name storms including 6 major hurricanes.
The West Coast drought will continue, and increase brush fire activity across the California state, especially south. La Nina will bring scorching temperatures to the west this summer, which could put California in the record books. The drought in California is already becoming affective as the department of utilities are asking people to cut back on water usage. What made this drought more evident is the lack of snowfall in the Sierra Mountains, fortunately water supply is not too scare at this moment. The fire season in California like I have mention before will be severe than previous years, so this is a perfect time to prepare for fire disasters.
I have done more research and this La Nina has weakened compared a few months ago when anomalies reached 2.0. Even some strength is lost La Nina affects will still persist and replenish intensity during the summer. Computer models still show La Nina dissipating early autumn. Hopefully, this will improve our chances of having a wetter 2008 winter.
The southeast USA where I am located is experiencing severe drought this year. We had the same dry with well below normal rain for the previous 2 years. YTD most areas are 8+ inches below normal.
