La Nina isn’t going to be our friend
The Lawrenceville Weather Blog highlights the latest release from the Climate Prediction Center, and it doesn’t look real good for us.
As we’ve been hearing for a while now, a pretty dry winter is expected. Those forecasts were based on expected La Nina conditions, which would indicate a drier than normal winter. However, measurements are now confirming that a weak to moderate La Nina has already started, making those predictions a bit more solid.
The full story at the LWB goes into much greater detail.
November 5th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
[...] sure how much water we have left, but all of them have it measured in a matter of months. With a dry winter coming, we are almost surely going to be in a critical state by spring. Whether we actually run out or not [...]
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:29 am
[...] The primary factor seems to be La Niña, the current weather pattern that is likely to bring us warm, dry weather throughout the winter and into the spring, which we’ve discussed before. [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 9:22 am
[...] the prediction of a warm, dry winter, I figured it was pretty unlikely that we’d see snow this year — much less see snow [...]