The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has reported that there is a better than 50 percent chance that El Niño conditions will develop sometime between July and September. However, most forecasters believe that if a El Niño event does occur it is more likely to be on the weak-to-moderate end of the spectrum.
Tony Barnston, chief forecaster for the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, says that “The southern tier of U.S. states tends to have above-normal precipitation during winter when there is an El Niño. So this would be helpful for the droughts currently lingering in Texas/New Mexico, and Georgia/Alabama,” he said in an email conversation. “It would not help the ones in Kentucky/Indiana though, and could cause a new one in the northern Rockies.” climatecentral.org
This is what I think when NOAA tells me something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvQFtlNQ-M
60% of the time, it works everytime.
well there goes the season ……
finally some SW weather love!!! Bring on the dumpage, PNW zip it, you always get snow and will prob do just fine in el nino. jackson will get 350+ too…all is fair.
Being from the pnw i know one thing for fact: it will rain in the lowlands.
El Nino or not.
I thought El Nino was like every 7 years or something. Seems like it has been around for 3 years now.
*Every 3-7 years. Last two were La Nina. The year before that was El Nino.
That was true until Al Gore invented global warming.
bring on the Nino
im glad i live in telluride
moving from Flagstaff to Bozeman. >:(
durrrrrrrrrrrr
why a hurrrr durrrr?
Hood will still dump 600 inches like almost every year. So Im never worried just coming down from Tline now and theres plenty of coverage I dont doubt youll be able to ride from top to lodge till early to mid aug. Thats over 2 miles of terrain from 8540 to 6000ft
50/50 chance, real bold prediction
Ya considering there are two to choose from that must have taken a PHD to figure out
Im never listening to a long range forecast again
Well…if any of the PNW skiers like myself on here remember the winter of 2004/05, then this could be a very scary scenario…