If recent trends are any indication, the anticipated snow can’t come soon enough. California has seen record high temperatures during the past few winter months and even traditionally chilly regions like mountain ranges have seen unusually warm levels within the past year or two, contributing to the state’s long-lasting dry spot. As ZeroHedge explains:
“Improvement is possible. However, the drought will certainly go into a fifth year, according to the forecast from the U.S. Climate Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. As Bloomberg reports,
‘The drought relief for California widely expected from El Nino in early 2016 will be far more effective if a chill descends soon — ideally with a bit of snow.
“If we can get some snow on the ground and some cold nights, it will set up the snowpack and get cool air pooling,” said California State Climatologist Mike Anderson.
Cool air, especially at high altitudes, will help ensure snow falls and stays on the ground in the mountains through the winter, as needed to supply the state’s reservoirs. While that may seem like a non-issue given the height of the mountains and the tradition of heavy snows there, recent years have seen some worrisome trends.
During the winter of 2014-15, the three-month average temperature in the Sierra region topped the freezing mark of 32 degrees Fahrenheit (zero Celsius) for the first time in records dating to 1950, data compiled by Anderson show.
California as a whole posted its warmest February on record and both December and January came in among the top 10, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina.
Here is why all of this is important: If El Nino delivers the promised increase in big, wet storms off the Pacific from January to March, California needs a lot of what falls from those systems to be snow.’
Snow in the mountains stays there until spring, when it melts, runs off and replenishes the state’s reservoirs. If the storms come in as rain, or the mountain snow can’t pile up high enough, a lot of water will be lost.”
California better pray for a white Christmas!
Source: ZeroHedge
Photo: Prof77
How is that minnow doing???
The drought is a problem because of the millions of added “illegal” immigrants that are literally sucking up natural resources. So California will continue to demand American Tax Payers money to help them out… while allowing sanctuary cities. So to hell with them and their man made problem.
not likely of course when the gov’t is controlling the weather with their machines and jets. i just read this this afternoon i was skeptical until i found out how they did it.
Drought is bad. But the agenda being used by the liberal lunkheads have been more damaging to that state .