If It Looks like an El Nino, and Feels Like an El Nino…

,,,maybe it is an El Nino. After an unexpected and totally welcome 6.59 inches a couple of weeks ago, the air has been clear, soft, windless and warm…we hit a 97 a week ago, and yesterday 84. The data also look convincing: Here's a graph of warmth spreading along the equator across the Pacific, fromContinue reading “If It Looks like an El Nino, and Feels Like an El Nino…”

El Nino or El Fizzle?

This year’s boy child is looking considerably less robust than advertised just three months ago. From a typically excellent story by Rob Krier in the San Diego Union Tribune: Anyone counting on El Niño to wipe out California’s drought this winter may be counting chickens long before they’ve hatched. Long-range forecasters are less and lessContinue reading “El Nino or El Fizzle?”