El Nino and the Blob

[starman]

Good video explaining the current state of El Nino and a discussion of "the Blob". It's going to be an interesting winter.

[PonoBill]

Very interesting. California might get the rain they've been praying for, and then a hell of a lot more. Thousand year flood from oregon to soCal. There's no place in america with the infrastructure to control anything more than a 100 year flood, and California has less than most. Interesting might not be the word for it.

[kayadogg]

This makes our move back to Rhode Island in a month a little easier to deal with.

[SlatchJim]

One of the safest locations in general for flood survival is on the outskirts of an alluvial fan (where I live)...until an event comes that covers the outskirts of the fan...and then you're hosed.

[PonoBill]

One of the safest locations in general for flood survival is on the outskirts of an alluvial fan (where I live)...until an event comes that covers the outskirts of the fan...and then you're hosed.

If a flood covers the outskirts of an alluvial fan then you're just joining a hell of a lot of people in being hosed.

[OUTSIDEWAVE]

"This makes our move back to Rhode Island in a month a little easier to deal with."

the cold blob

[OUTSIDEWAVE]

sLatch alluvial fan    bad place to be in an el ninny year

[southwesterly]

The cutest El Niņo ever.

[pdxmike]

My neighbor was alluvial fan until he read about the recruiting scandals.

[SUPcheat]

Alluvial fan:  isn't that kind of like expecting that the toilet seat will never get hit?

[pdxmike]

I like that European humor.

[SuppaTime]

I have been reading the NOAA web pages devoted to monitoring El Nino. If you don't mind wading through the climatology jargon, it is pretty interesting stuff.

PowerPoint: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf

ENSO (el nino/southern oscillation) page: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html