I have a meteorology question

[pscot]

The Aleutian low has been pumping one rain band after another into the Northwest since February. It's still at it. Usually by this time of year the North Pacific High has begun to assert itself and the Aleution Low begins to weaken. Today the barometer just south of Unimak Pass at the mouth of the Bering sea read 991 milibars. Is melting in the Arctic affecting this or is it just priming for a major El Nino? There's not of information about the behavior of the Aleutian Low, probably because most meteorologists are on the East coast. We get no respect' just rain, rain and more rain..

[XemaSab]

1. It's raining here in California too

It should be 85 and sunny.

I'm not a meteorologist, but the relationship between climate change and El Nino is poorly understood. IIRC, this year was supposed to be a La Nina, no?

[Sonoman]

3. For the 2nd year in a row, we got rain at the end of May.

It poured this morning and the temp was in the low 60s.

A couple more Spring/Summers like this and we won't be in Wine Country anymore.

The "other" growers are pretty happy, though.

Sonoman

[pscot]

5. I wouldn't be too sure.

The other commodity doesn't like damp weather either. Last year I lost my little herb garden to mold because it rained all through August.

[Sonoman]

7. That IS late.

Rain in Aug/Sept and everyone is hosed.

After last Summer, everyone in Wine Country has gotten kinda hinky.

Sonoman

PS Better luck this year.
S.

[WheelWalker]

6. As a matter of fact it is snowing outside right now. Freak'n flakes the size of

Eisenhower dollars.

[pscot]

4. La Nina is fading slowly

I used to be able to keep up with this stuff at NOAA's web site. But they had their site redone by Disney, and I can't find a goddamned thing over there anymore. There's general awareness that the circulation is seasonal and decadal, and that it responds to ENSO, but numbers are hard to find.

[XemaSab]

9. Update:

There were several tornadoes in the North State today! :o

[Drale]

2. Its probably got something to do with this being a La Nina year

The lower Pacific is colder then normal, and that generally means heavy rains that last longer then normal.

[Thirtieschild]

8. Heavy rains in the NW, zilch in the SW

I've said this before and I'll probably say it again every time the subject comes up because it's so frightening: We're in the southwest corner of New Mexico and our backyard Davis weather station says 1.06" of moisture in the last seven months. Zero since mid-Feburary. La Nina is the pits for us, El Nino saves us. I miss, miss, miss those soft Georgia rains.

[Posteritatis]

10. Same thing in my neck of the woods

Nova Scotia's had, I think, two full days without rain since the beginning of March, and it's often been 5-10C colder than it usually is.