EISPIRATEN

He's coming!

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012 ... winter.php

Oh, promises, promises! (well, let's hope they're right)

HJ

Yeah right, it'll be 115* in January at 10,000ft.

Taco wrote: ↑Yeah right, it'll be 115* in January at 10,000ft.

I will wear an 8000m suit out of spite. PURE SPITE.

Taco wrote: ↑Yeah right, it'll be 115* in January at 10,000ft.

115 inches, or 115 cm (45 inches) of snow by January? Even with the avy danger that'll create, that would make a fun winter in the hills.

"The U.S. Climate Prediction Center, part of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), also warned on Thursday that an El Nino was almost certain to occur over the next two months."

AW wrote: ↑"The U.S. Climate Prediction Center, part of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), also warned on Thursday that an El Nino was almost certain to occur over the next two months."

So, September and October? One small, itsy bitsy question: What the heck does an El Niño look like in September/October? Our rainy season isn't until January.

HJ

I'll believe it when I'm in it!

One week later...forget about it. Like they said, they were almost certain, not certain .

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/a ... weakening/
"For the last several months, a new El Niño, the warmer-than-normal sea-surface temperature event in the south-central Pacific Ocean, was forming. During El Niño years, we often see milder winters with much less snow. Last month, it appeared that we were heading toward one of those years as El Niño was increasing.

However, the latest sea-surface temperature data indicates that ocean temperatures off the West Coast of South America and along the equatorial regions are falling. Also, there is a small and intensifying pool of cooler-than-normal ocean waters along the coast of South America. It’s too early to tell, but it’s starting to look like this new El Niño may be short-lived. In fact, that region of cooler waters needs to be watched very closely. In this pattern of wide weather extremes, it’s possible that we may be talking about a new La Niña by early 2013."

LOL, get back to me when these clowns can call it right from 2 days out.

La Niña of course means warm and dry in So Cal this winter.

HJ

Hikin_Jim wrote: ↑La Niña of course means warm and dry in So Cal this winter.

HJ

Didn't we just do that? Now we're all going to have to move to the Sierras to see any white stuff hanging around.

JeffH wrote: ↑Didn't we just do that? Now we're all going to have to move to the Sierras to see any white stuff hanging around.

If you're lucky. The Sierra didn't exactly have a banner season either.

HJ