weatherfan2012 Posted March 23 Report Share Posted March 23 What interesting is sort term El nino has a warming effect long term El nino system has a cooling tendency.Same with La nina sort term it has a leveling off cooling effect but long term in a La nina system it tends to go along with warming cycles climate as oppose to cooling cycles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverFallsAndrew Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 (edited) On 9/28/2023 at 8:58 AM, AquariusRadar said: Some improvement in the upper Mississippi valley. Drought in SE New Mexico and SW Mississippi intensifies. Some severe drought shows up in Oregon. Not worried about drought here anymore. Our summers have been insane the past 3 years, but this is our 3rd wet winter in a row with decent snow pack. An extreme blessing in a strong Nino winter. Edited March 27 by SilverFallsAndrew Quote Snowfall Precip 2022-23: 95.0" 2022-23: 17.39" 2021-22: 52.6" 2021-22: 91.46" 2020-21: 12.0" 2020-21: 71.59" 2019-20: 23.5" 2019-20: 58.54" 2018-19: 63.5" 2018-19: 66.33" 2017-18: 30.3" 2017-18: 59.83" 2016-17: 49.2" 2016-17: 97.58" 2015-16: 11.75" 2015-16: 68.67" 2014-15: 3.5" 2013-14: 11.75" 2013-14: 62.30 2012-13: 16.75" 2012-13: 78.45 2011-12: 98.5" 2011-12: 92.67" It's always sunny at Winters Hill! Fighting the good fight against weather evil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andie Posted March 27 Author Report Share Posted March 27 Gulf coast looking very dry. Doesn’t bode well for crops. …..Outlook for Texas? Quote Before You Diagnose Yourself With Depression or Low Self-Esteem,...First Make Sure You Are Not In Fact, Just Surrounded By A$$holes. “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.” Gen. Sheridan 1866 2018 Rainfall - 62.65" High Temp. - 110.03* Low Temp. - 8.4* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquariusRadar Posted March 28 Report Share Posted March 28 The weekly drought map shows no dramatic changes. But more and more, little by little, the upper regions of our biggest rivers are showing very dry or some drought. The Mississippi, Snake, Missouri, Colorado, and Rio Grande are all, at least, very dry. Your'e right Andie. Not looking good for a hot summer ahead. The Ohio, Tennessee, and other larger rivers of the Southeast are currently free of dry conditions. But these rivers lack a snow pack source and will be subject to rapid drying as the summer heat comes on. The Sacramento and west coast rivers are ok..with more moisture expected this spring and backed up by good snowpack. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andie Posted March 28 Author Report Share Posted March 28 We haven’t received much rain through the winter. It really needs to rain. ¿Cuándo va a llover?!!! Quote Before You Diagnose Yourself With Depression or Low Self-Esteem,...First Make Sure You Are Not In Fact, Just Surrounded By A$$holes. “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.” Gen. Sheridan 1866 2018 Rainfall - 62.65" High Temp. - 110.03* Low Temp. - 8.4* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherfan2012 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 On 3/28/2024 at 3:58 PM, Andie said: We haven’t received much rain through the winter. It really needs to rain. ¿Cuándo va a llover?!!! this was a strange El nino Alot of research I think will be look at it but my bet is the pacific had a play with a over all La nina background state which may have interruped the normal El nino tendaceys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceresistance Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 2 hours ago, weatherfan2012 said: this was a strange El nino Alot of research I think will be look at it but my bet is the pacific had a play with a over all La nina background state which may have interruped the normal El nino tendaceys. -PDO messed it up Quote Never say Never with Weather, because anything is possible! All observations are in Tecumseh, OK unless otherwise noted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andie Posted April 2 Author Report Share Posted April 2 Well, …it sucked. Quote Before You Diagnose Yourself With Depression or Low Self-Esteem,...First Make Sure You Are Not In Fact, Just Surrounded By A$$holes. “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.” Gen. Sheridan 1866 2018 Rainfall - 62.65" High Temp. - 110.03* Low Temp. - 8.4* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquariusRadar Posted April 4 Report Share Posted April 4 Drought map unchanged this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquariusRadar Posted April 12 Report Share Posted April 12 No major change in the drought map. A small area of extreme drought in Western Montana has cleared. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquariusRadar Posted April 19 Report Share Posted April 19 The tiny areas of extreme drought in upper Idaho and Montana have returned. The extreme area in Iowa has decreased. The drought areas of the Kansas and Oklahoma (very dry) and desert Southwest are expanding to merge in the Texas panhandle. If that trend continues, there will be a continuous line of drought that extends from the boot heel of New Mexico to the upper Great Lakes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhiEaglesfan712 Posted April 22 Report Share Posted April 22 Multi-year la nina events are more common, but not multi-year el nino events. It comes down to the fact that it's easier to sustain a la nina event than an el nino. It's very rare to have consecutive el nino years. Before 2014-15 and 2015-16 (and possibly 2018-19 and 2019-20), the last time we had back-to-back el nino years was 1986-87 and 1987-88. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquariusRadar Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Not much change in the drought conditions. A little less of the intense drought in Iowa but Iowa and Kansas are mostly in some level of drought. The southwest drought continues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquariusRadar Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 No changes to the drought map. April showers bring May flowers? April should have done better. Dry months ahead for the Midwest corn belt. The Southwest monsoon hopefully will start early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andie Posted May 2 Author Report Share Posted May 2 Go back to the first post and play the photos like a “video”. You can see the development and shrinking of the drought. The drought has changed a good deal. Interesting to watch it. Quote Before You Diagnose Yourself With Depression or Low Self-Esteem,...First Make Sure You Are Not In Fact, Just Surrounded By A$$holes. “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.” Gen. Sheridan 1866 2018 Rainfall - 62.65" High Temp. - 110.03* Low Temp. - 8.4* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquariusRadar Posted May 9 Report Share Posted May 9 Yes, interesting to see the growth then the shrinkage. I am thinking the spring rains should have done more for Kansas. Looks thin for a wheat harvest. But the largest portion of the corn belt is looking ok and rains continue there. Iowa now only the NE corner in peril. More rain expected there. Dry continues from east Arizona to west Texas. New Mexico in serious fire danger. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquariusRadar Posted Thursday at 03:05 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 03:05 PM Only a small part of NE Iowa remains in serious drought. The rest of the corn belt ok- for now. Hot weather coming. Kansas and the OK/Tex panhandles now engulfed by the dry. Red winter wheat (bread wheat) not loooking to good. El Nino not yet over- the South continues very (record) wet. Idaho and Montana dry and the NW snowpack below normal. The SW continues in drought- extreme in south New Mexico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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