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THE El Nino / La Nina Thread Pt. 2

THE El Nino / La Nina Thread Pt. 2

Unread postby dohboi » Thu 04 Feb 2016, 13:47:32

Nice graphs. I guess I was just projecting my hopes for the near future. We'll see.
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Re: THE El Nino / La Nina Thread (merged)

Unread postby Tanada » Thu 04 Feb 2016, 15:23:12

dohboi wrote:"the dip this time was lower than the last drought from 2007-10"

Yeah, and the drought, though not as long lasting as some, was the deepest in 1000 years.

But, hey, no big deal! :lol:


Sure, but if you concentrate on just the Shasta reservoir and you play around with the numbers to go back as far as possible the graph gets erratic before 1987 and stops before 1984. So going from 1987 summer forward what do I see? Well from 1987 to 1993 the reservoir never got to full pool, and what is more the levels got down to 2015 levels a couple of times in that short span. Then in the 1992-93 el nino the reservoir got to full pool the first time in the graphical record. Then from 2007 to 2009 we got back down to the 87-93 type levels again before returning to full pool in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 fill seasons do to abnormally damp weather. Has California been in a drought since 2013? Absolutely! Has it been the end of the world as we knew it? Of course not!
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Re: THE El Nino / La Nina Thread (merged)

Unread postby dohboi » Thu 04 Feb 2016, 21:48:40

" Has it been the end of the world as we knew it?"

Strawman.

Cite someone who said, "This is the end of the world as we know it" or stop posting lies.
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Unread postby Shaved Monkey » Fri 05 Feb 2016, 05:49:55

Our wet season finally came (only a few months late)
We got a few hundred mill of rain over the last few days.
Builders wheel barrow overflowed on the first day.
Its still going
The garden loves it.
Still about 200 to 400 mm down on average.
Roads are flooded.
Ready to turn Zombies into WWOOFers
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Unread postby dohboi » Fri 05 Feb 2016, 14:25:39

Nice to hear it. Where are you again? (not specific location, just continent and general region)
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Unread postby onlooker » Wed 10 Feb 2016, 17:37:47

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?N ... rus4lmph9x
Climate outlook ‘particularly concerning’ in southern Africa due to El Niño - UN agency
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Unread postby dohboi » Thu 11 Feb 2016, 00:02:03

rs on El Nino's failure to put an end to the drought in the SW of the US.

http://robertscribbler.com/2016/02/10/e ... t-drought/
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Unread postby sparky » Fri 12 Feb 2016, 05:46:32

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Same in Sydney , usually here El nino's are hot and dry with dust and droughts , this one was short , cold and very very wet .
it seems like the weather patterns are a bit disturbed
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Unread postby onlooker » Wed 17 Feb 2016, 09:39:10

https://www.rt.com/news/332733-children ... d-el-nino/
Nightmarish El Niño leaves 1mn African children subject to 'acute malnutrition'
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Unread postby Cid_Yama » Wed 17 Feb 2016, 11:52:52

Yes, they have created new terms so they don't have to use the word Starvation. Like in the US they now use, extreme food insecurity. Doesn't sound nearly so bad.

Must lead to extreme life deficiency.
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Unread postby Cid_Yama » Wed 17 Feb 2016, 12:04:14

Yes, indeed, we have eliminated hunger in America. Americans now only experience food insecurity.

Whoever came up with the term food insecurity needs to be strung up from a lamppost, Mussolini style.
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Re: THE El Nino / La Nina Thread Pt. 2

Unread postby Tanada » Wed 17 Feb 2016, 14:22:32

Earlier portion of this thread can be found,
topic23623.html
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Re: THE El Nino / La Nina Thread Pt. 2

Unread postby Subjectivist » Wed 17 Feb 2016, 15:39:30

How long does an El Niño have to last to be classified as 'permanent'?
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Re: THE El Nino / La Nina Thread Pt. 2

Unread postby Tanada » Thu 03 Mar 2016, 11:31:49

Reuters wrote:A delay in the onset of the La Nina weather pattern this year is likely to buoy crops across key growing regions in the United States, Australia and India, a leading weather forecaster said on Thursday.

Another year of bumper production of crops such as corn, wheat and soybeans would boost global inventories that have risen near record levels following successive large harvests.

"Some models were showing La Nina developing by July but they have delayed that by a month or two now," said Kyle Tapley, senior agricultural meteorologist at U.S.-based MDA Weather Services.

La Nina, Spanish for "the girl", prompts a cooling of Pacific Ocean temperatures that brings hot and dry weather to key U.S. growing areas, while much of Asia experiences wetter conditions. It tends to occur unpredictably every two to seven years.
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Tapley said El Nino, which brought drought to parts of Asia last year and impacted India's monsoon, has been weakening since November at a slower pace than previous examples of that weather pattern.

"If you compare with other strong El Nino events that we have had, 1998 and 1983, this event is weakening slower than those events. That is why La Nina has been pushed back."

Weather experts had earlier indicated the return of La Nina, for the first time since 2012, after the end of El Nino in the second quarter.

Global wheat and corn production has been rising since 2013/14, while soybean output has climbed to record highs in the last three years, thanks to near-perfect weather conditions in many producing regions.

That has kept pressure on grain prices, with wheat declining to its lowest since June 2010 this week. Soybeans dropped to their weakest since early January and corn hit a seven-week low.

Still, over the last year, El Nino has parched fields in the Philippines and Indonesia, brought unseasonable rains to areas of South America and caused flash floods in Somalia that destroyed thousands of homes.

The delay in the arrival of La Nina will mean normal weather across the U.S. Midwest between April and August - the key growing season for corn and soybeans.

"If we don't have a quicker transition to La Nina, we have less likelihood of very hot and dry summer across the United States," Tapley said on the sidelines of a grains industry seminar in Singapore.

"Our forecasts show just above normal temperatures across eastern and central U.S., but not extreme heat by any means. On the precipitation side, we are seeing close to normal in most of the corn and soybean areas across the U.S. Midwest."

Normal rainfall between April and August will favor wheat planting in Australia, he said. There could be more rainfall from August, the crucial yield-determining period for the Australian wheat crop.

"We will likely see a stronger (Indian) monsoon this year, but it depends on how quickly we move to La Nina. It might be the later part of the monsoon which might be stronger."

(Reporting by Naveen Thukral; Editing by Joseph Radford)


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Re: THE El Nino / La Nina Thread Pt. 2

Unread postby dohboi » Mon 21 Mar 2016, 10:20:45

In spite of the near media blackout on the subject, concern about global warming is higher than it's been in decades, probably because of all the extreme weather in this Super El Nino year.

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/ ... ent-631785
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Re: THE El Nino / La Nina Thread Pt. 2

Unread postby kiwichick » Mon 21 Mar 2016, 14:21:04

@ D..............you are always going to have some people who won't see the bleeding obvious, even when it is right in front of their face.

Just ignore them and get on with your own life/plans

Afterall there is still a flat earth society, isn't there?

and don't get me started on religion!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: THE El Nino / La Nina Thread Pt. 2

Unread postby dohboi » Mon 21 Mar 2016, 18:20:42

Too true
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Re: THE El Nino / La Nina Thread Pt. 2

Unread postby dohboi » Tue 29 Mar 2016, 09:16:49

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4432792.htm

This El Nino has contributed to massive, widespread bleaching of the far northern Great Barrier reef.

Exclusive footage of the Great Barrier Reef shows what could be the most severe and extensive coral bleaching on record.

A leading coral researcher has just returned from a four-day aerial survey of reefs off Australia's far north coast, and of the 520 reefs his team flew over, all but four were damaged.

The extreme bleaching event is likely to kill some of the world's most pristine coral, as Peter McCutcheon reports.

TERRY HUGHES, JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY: This will change the Great Barrier Reef forever. We're seeing huge levels of bleaching in the northern 1,000-kilometre stretch of the Great Barrier Reef.

PETER MCCUTCHEON, REPORTER: The sheer scale of coral bleaching is revealed in footage shot for a scientific survey last week. For over 1,000 kilometres from Cairns to the Torres Strait, the once-colourful ribbons of reef are a ghostly white. Leading this expedition is one of Australia's most eminent coral scientists, Professor Terry Hughes.

TERRY HUGHES: For me personally, it was devastating to look at out of the chopper window and see reef after reef destroyed by bleaching. But really my emotion is not so much sadness as anger. I'm really angry that the Government isn't listening to the evidence that we're providing them since 1998.

PETER MCCUTCHEON: Terry Hughes and his team rated a staggering 95 per cent of the reefs they flew over in the most severely bleached categories. That's considerably more severe than past bleaching events, where the figure was under 20 per cent.

TERRY HUGHES: It's too early yet to tell precisely how many of the bleached corals will die, but judging from the extreme level of bleaching, even the most robust corals are snow white. I'd expect to see about half of those corals die in the coming month or so. We're already seeing mortality beginning in our underwater surveys near Cairns and Port Douglas.

PETER MCCUTCHEON: Coral bleaching is caused by abnormally high sea temperatures that kill the tiny marine algae essential to coral health.


Thanks to Stephen at neven's site for this.
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Re: THE El Nino / La Nina Thread Pt. 2

Unread postby Tanada » Tue 29 Mar 2016, 10:03:11

Dohboi you have been following the details much closer than I, what is the latest ENSO status and forecast as we are now firmly in Spring? Around here El Nino summers can be very hot with high humidity from frequent rain.
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