Hopefully it will be a good year with some huge fish being caught this year....let's see....
El Nino brewing, raising O.C.’s chance for wet winter - Sciencedude - OCRegister.com
After three straight years of below average rainfall, there may finally be some good news ahead. News of the soggy kind.
The U.S.
Climate Prediction Center says in a
new advisory that an
El Nino of undetermined size appears to be forming in the equatorial Pacific. The natural, periodic climate change usually produces wet winters in California, where drought-related water restrictions are currently going into effect statewide. Past El Ninos also have led to flooding, mudslides and strengthened some storms to the point where they generated huge waves that damaged the Orange County coastline, especially local piers.
“Conditions are favorable for a transition for ENSO-neutral to El Nino conditions during June-August 2009,” the advisory says.
In simplest terms, sea surface temperatures become unusually warm in the eastern equatorial Pacific during El Nino, a phenomenon that can vary greatly in intensity. This warming sets off oceanographic and atmospheric chain reaction that can make winter storms stronger, especially when the northern jet stream dips south. For a basic Q-and-A on El Nino,
click here.
Forecasters should have a better idea by mid-summer whether the El Nino now brewing along the equator is going to become big.
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