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This is the biggest El Niño on record, and a killer La Niña is coming

trichrider

trichrider

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i'm not available for lending credence to their perfidious nature...
it wasn't bragging. you could and can do exactly what i describe. so could they.

i cannot say why they are so often wrong with the tools they have available. intentional misdirection ?

very suspicious of you. ? everything.
 
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High winds -- including 141 mph on Mount Hood -- easing now, but expected again Tuesd

High winds -- including 141 mph on Mount Hood -- easing now, but expected again Tuesd

High winds hit the Oregon coast and Cascades on Monday with a peak wind of 141 recorded on Mount Hood.

The strongest gust on the coast was 80 mph at Sea Lion Caves, the National Weather Service reported.

Winds had eased off across the region by Monday afternoon, with gusts in the mountains recorded from 65 to 80 mph, the weather service said.

The high winds are expected to return Tuesday afternoon into the night, the weather service said.
 
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Robrites

Monday's rain shatters 24-hour rainfall record for December in Portland

Monday's rain shatters 24-hour rainfall record for December in Portland

Rainfall update: 7.5 inches in Coast Range, more than 3 inches in Portland metro area

Roads became rivers and lakes, small streams became raging torrents and manholes turned into gushing brown fountains in the Pearl District.

And we're just getting started, forecasters say, as yet another in a strong series of storms is poised off the Oregon coast and setting it sights on northwest Oregon and southwest Washington.

That's going to translate into heavy rain again Tuesday night and then again Wednesday night into Thursday, with periods of gusting winds in between and rivers rising to or above flood stage.
 
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Robrites

The wet week will continue in the Pacific Northwest as the next storm in a line of storms will renew rain and high elevation snow. Many areas of the Northwest have already received over a foot or more of rainfall already, but the storms over the next few days will transition to more or a snowfall event through the weekend. Flooding will remain a concern as several rivers have already reached flood stage with much more precipitation to come.

 
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Wettest start to an El Niño season in Pacific Northwest as storms hit California

Wettest start to an El Niño season in Pacific Northwest as storms hit California

A powerful El Niño continues to gain strength, the latest forecast released Thursday said. And while El Niño rains are still weeks away from hitting California, another weather phenomenon that has exacerbated the state's drought has lifted, allowing heavy storms to target the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.

"Of all the years in which there was a strong El Niño present in the tropical Pacific Ocean, this is the wettest start to any of those years that we've observed in the Pacific Northwest, both in Portland and Seattle," said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at Stanford University.

Powerful rains have struck Oregon hard over the past three days, according to the National Weather Service. On Wednesday, one woman drowned when her car entered floodwaters, and another woman was killed after a falling tree crushed her Portland home, according to local news reports.

A photo published in the Tillamook County Pioneer showed the town of Nehalem covered in floodwaters. The newspaper reported that several families have been flooded out of their homes and U.S. 101 was closed there.

A storm system also is targeting Northern California this week. It’s expected to bring as much as 8 inches of rain along the North Coast, 3 inches to the San Francisco Bay Area, and feet — not inches — of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains over the next few days, climate experts said.
 
theJointedOne

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8 ft of snow huh?

I dunno, that would be awesome but I have my doubt's

Its been raining pretty much non stop for a week here in Humboldt...creeks and tributaries went from dry to gushing overnight.

No excuses this year for farmers not to catch their irrigation water in the winter, and while doing so make us look good to LEO and the local twig pigs ect..
 
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There's no stopping the sopping, forecasters say, with valley rain and mountain snows

There's no stopping the sopping, forecasters say, with valley rain and mountain snows

The winds and rain that have turned Oregon into a soggy mess show no sign of stopping anytime soon, forecasters say, with more rain Friday, and winds raking the south and central Willamette Valley late in the afternoon.

That could equal more toppled trees due to saturated soils and more lightning strikes as the storm moves ashore near Tillamook, which has seen some of the heaviest rains during the December 2015 deluge.

Highways in Tillamook County were raked by a continuous parade of strong storms that tapped into subtropical moisture, setting up a classic atmospheric river, a conveyor belt of moisture aimed squarely at western Oregon and western Washington. That scenario could repeat itself next week.
 
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Today

Today

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oldchuck

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Warm and dry in Vermont, a little below freezing at night and 50 in the day. Feels more like April than December. Looking at the scary prospect of no white Christmas. Unheard of.
 
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El Niño Could Ignite Amazon, Drench California

El Niño Could Ignite Amazon, Drench California

From Scientific American..

The Amazon forests of Central and South America are at increased risk of fires in 2016 due to the ongoing El Niño, according to NASA scientists.

This El Niño, which has helped trigger more than 100,000 fires in Indonesia and spewed an estimated 1.75 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents into the atmosphere, will next threaten tropical forests in Southeast Asia and in southern Mexico, Guatemala and other countries in Central America, said James Randerson, an Earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine.

The higher fire risk in the tropics is one of many of El Niño’s impacts that scientists are observing. In rain-starved California, models are projecting that the weather phenomenon, which is the strongest seen since 1997-98, will likely include heavy precipitation beginning in mid- to late December.

The heavy precipitation will be triggered by “atmospheric rivers,” which are weather patterns that bring storms to the West Coast of the United States. The rivers are projected to be warmer and wetter than normal this season.

Still, the deluge would likely not quench the four-year-long California drought, said Martin Hoerling, a research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Research Laboratory.

“It is too simplistic to talk about drought busters about being just about rain,” Hoerling said. “You have soil moisture and groundwater that has been depleted over decades that isn’t going to be recovered no matter how much it rains.”
 
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