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Oct 19, 2012 at 2:36 pm #1295271
This from NOAA via adventure-journal:
"The upcoming winter is likely to be a mild and dry one for the West and the Upper Midwest, while parts of the Southeast may see cooler and wetter than average conditions, according to the official U.S. winter outlook issued yesterday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)."
http://www.adventure-journal.com/2012/10/el-nino-demise-clouds-crystal-ball-but-its-looking-dry/
Oct 19, 2012 at 11:48 pm #1923066Here's the official NOAA news release:
Elusive El Niño challenges NOAA’s 2012 U.S. Winter Outlook
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2012/20121018_winteroutlook.htmlHere's the money quote:
“This is one of the most challenging outlooks we’ve produced in recent years because El Niño decided not to show up as expected,” said Mike Halpert, deputy director of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. “In fact, it stalled out last month, leaving neutral conditions in place in the tropical Pacific.”
Meaning they have even less confidence than usual in this years outlook.
Oct 22, 2012 at 5:08 pm #1923755Recent studies showed that the Rocky Mountain drought is a combination of low precipitation and high temperatures. The low precip is obvious, but the high temps cause higher evaporation and evapotranspiration by plants, reducing ground water and river flows even more.
If you look at the overlap between dry and warm in these winter outlooks, seems like drought for eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, northern Nevada, northwestern Utah, and all of Idaho.
But I am not a climate forecaster, and don't play one on TV.
[Edit: Make that northWESTERN Utah.]
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