Dry Winter Ahead? “Yes” Say the Airheads at NOAA
By Tom Chandler on Dec 7, 2006 in Underground Entertainment
With an El Nino “event” forming in the Pacific, we could be facing another dry winter, though one that offers early-and-late snow/rain.
Just what the hell is an El Nino? This from a story in New West Magainze:
The early-season snowfall, in fact, is itself typical of an El Niño winter. The term refers to an unusual upwelling of warm water along the equatorial regions of the Eastern Pacific, which affects weather patterns worldwide. Temperatures in the area reached up to 2° Centigrade above normal in November, which heralds a “moderate” El Niño.
Characteristic effects of El Niño include warmer-than-average temperatures over western and central Canada, wetter-than-average conditions along the Gulf Coast, drier-than-average weather in the Ohio Valley and the Pacific Northwest, and, yes, a mostly warm, dry winter in the Rockies.
Before we start hopping from foot to foot in anticipation of a dry winter (and good winter fly fishing), let’s remember that weather forecasts - especially of the long-range variety - are about as accurate as a first-time fly fisher’s casts.
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