El Nino is Coming
Jan. 4th, 2016 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aToday we got the first of what's being called an El Nino storm. The weather wizards say, "There's tropical moisture in it". Hence, it was driven our way by El Nino. We get two types of storms here in the Bay Area: the Alaskan storms, which suck; and the tropical storms, which can be quite wet and don't suck unless you mind getting soaked.
Today's storm was mostly drizzle or light rain, but it's supposed to be followed by a second one tomorrow that they're claiming will drop an inch of rain in three hours. So, El Nino is coming. (Though sadly it sounds like the strongest of the rain may occur while I'm sleeping, since it's supposed to come in at about 3am.)
It's nice to see what's looking like the beginning of the end of the drought here in California. It's sort of amazing how heavy the drought sits upon us, given how little it affects our lives. (Here at least; not so much in some of the less civilized parts of California, where they've flat out run out of water, because they don't have the municipal heft that we do ... which is why cities are good.) Anywho, after a few years of drought, dry months seem like punishment, and rain seems like a great victory. The ebbing rivers, ponds, and lakes are all depressing, and rain becomes joyous.
Give us a month, though. If rain really does pummel us throughout January and February, as the El Nino forecasts suggest is most likely, people will be pretty sick of it by then.
Today's storm was mostly drizzle or light rain, but it's supposed to be followed by a second one tomorrow that they're claiming will drop an inch of rain in three hours. So, El Nino is coming. (Though sadly it sounds like the strongest of the rain may occur while I'm sleeping, since it's supposed to come in at about 3am.)
It's nice to see what's looking like the beginning of the end of the drought here in California. It's sort of amazing how heavy the drought sits upon us, given how little it affects our lives. (Here at least; not so much in some of the less civilized parts of California, where they've flat out run out of water, because they don't have the municipal heft that we do ... which is why cities are good.) Anywho, after a few years of drought, dry months seem like punishment, and rain seems like a great victory. The ebbing rivers, ponds, and lakes are all depressing, and rain becomes joyous.
Give us a month, though. If rain really does pummel us throughout January and February, as the El Nino forecasts suggest is most likely, people will be pretty sick of it by then.