Post by Rickster on Oct 25, 2015 5:54:53 GMT -6
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I had to post this bit of information because I remember distinctly the El Nino of the late 90's. Being a car wash builder, maintainer, and consultant it was amazing the amount of rain that was found in Southern California. It rain solid for two weeks killing those car washes without reserves to deal with the losses. But total there was a period of El Nino rain that finished 7 car washes I remember because of 2 months of on and off rain. It was ugly and several people lost there businesses.
It's important for someone in California to realized with the drought conditions that have held California in the grips of a dust bowl condition that this type of rainfall could seriously damage growing conditions for topsoil many years. 90% of fruits and veggies come from California. Driving the central coastal areas is miles of lush soil and growing food stifled by drought and now possibly on the brink of being washed away. Hopefully someone with the state or the farmers can head of this catastrophe before it happens. Preparation is key here if environmentalist can stop directing water where they want, and do what's best for farmers and the nation's food supply.
"The periodical El Niño weather phenomena, known to affect the climate of our planet every few years, causing and enhancing extreme weather patterns, has already received a lot of attention this year, and will be better observed from space than any other El Niño before, NASA announced on October 19, 2015.
When an unusually warm water mass, up to 2 to 3 °C (4 to 5 °F) higher than average, develops in the eastern tropical Ocean, this condition is called El Niño. The anomaly affects the ocean environments, but also causes extreme weather, such as Californian floods or severe drought in Australia, around the globe."
When an unusually warm water mass, up to 2 to 3 °C (4 to 5 °F) higher than average, develops in the eastern tropical Ocean, this condition is called El Niño. The anomaly affects the ocean environments, but also causes extreme weather, such as Californian floods or severe drought in Australia, around the globe."
"The 2015/16 El Niño is already very strong and experts expect it will be equal to the well-know strongest event of 1997/98. NASA's current orbiting Earth observatories were all launched after 1997, and NASA has made a significant progress over the last twenty years in gathering and analyzing El Niño data.
"El Niño is a fascinating phenomenon because it has such far-reaching and diverse impacts. The fact that fires in Indonesia are linked with circulation patterns that influence rainfall over the United States shows how complex and interconnected the Earth system is," said Lesley Ott, research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland."
"El Niño is a fascinating phenomenon because it has such far-reaching and diverse impacts. The fact that fires in Indonesia are linked with circulation patterns that influence rainfall over the United States shows how complex and interconnected the Earth system is," said Lesley Ott, research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland."
I had to post this bit of information because I remember distinctly the El Nino of the late 90's. Being a car wash builder, maintainer, and consultant it was amazing the amount of rain that was found in Southern California. It rain solid for two weeks killing those car washes without reserves to deal with the losses. But total there was a period of El Nino rain that finished 7 car washes I remember because of 2 months of on and off rain. It was ugly and several people lost there businesses.
"Today, researchers have both satellite observations data and supercomputing models at their disposal to analyze the weather phenomena in previously unseen details. During the winter season of 2015, NASA's scientists will share the latest discoveries as and imagery El Niño details as they arise.
One of the things to be studied is the year-to-year variability for fire seasons in the western US, Amazon and Indonesia. El Niño event could also impact the yearly variability of the ground-level pollutant ozone responsible for severely affecting human health. Researchers will also strongly focus on El Niño's impact on the drought conditions across California.
"We still have a lot to learn about these connections, and NASA's suite of satellites will help us understand these processes in a new and deeper way," said Ott."
One of the things to be studied is the year-to-year variability for fire seasons in the western US, Amazon and Indonesia. El Niño event could also impact the yearly variability of the ground-level pollutant ozone responsible for severely affecting human health. Researchers will also strongly focus on El Niño's impact on the drought conditions across California.
"We still have a lot to learn about these connections, and NASA's suite of satellites will help us understand these processes in a new and deeper way," said Ott."
It's important for someone in California to realized with the drought conditions that have held California in the grips of a dust bowl condition that this type of rainfall could seriously damage growing conditions for topsoil many years. 90% of fruits and veggies come from California. Driving the central coastal areas is miles of lush soil and growing food stifled by drought and now possibly on the brink of being washed away. Hopefully someone with the state or the farmers can head of this catastrophe before it happens. Preparation is key here if environmentalist can stop directing water where they want, and do what's best for farmers and the nation's food supply.
