[Robrites]

Super Rain on large parts of the west coast in Mexico and Cali will supply much needed water but will no doubt result in damage due to flooding and mud slides. The La Niña ocean conditions will then cause Summer drought in California and South America. The east and southeast parts of America can expect high numbers of hurricanes and other major storms.

Outdoor growers need to plan ahead for nasty weather and adequate water supplies.

We need to work our smartest next season - Mother Nature might be on a bitchy streak.

What are things we can do to prepare for bad weather years?

[trichrider]

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[Robrites]

Originally Posted by trichrider

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Eyes Open - No Fear

[mojave green]

Originally Posted by trichrider

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A gloom group.

[St. Phatty]

Originally Posted by Robrites

Super Rain on large parts of the west coast in Mexico and Cali will supply much needed water but will no doubt result in damage due to flooding and mud slides.

What are things we can do to prepare for bad weather years?

OK I need some time to think about it, but if El Nino means more rain in the Pac Northwest, to replenish aquifers ... I'll take floods over fires any day. I think.

Not that a re-filled aquifer is a guarantee fire-wise, but it helps. It's what allows you to keep a green area around structures during wildfire season.

Personally I would like to see 1/2 of the rain diverted into some holding pattern so that it comes down in July, August, and September.


By 'bad weather' you mean too much rain ?

All I can think of to prepare for that is good rain catchment ... but that makes me think of states that have problems with citizens doing the rain barrel thing.

Water rights bullshit. Like the movie Chinatown (which was about water rights) but no less dramatic for the people who get harassed and assaulted by the state, over their water catchment or pond-building.

So I guess that in some states, Stealth is part of water catchment.

[Robrites]

From the LATIMES

A fog of suffocating smoke settles over the Indonesian countryside, sickening hundreds of thousands of people and triggering an environmental crisis.

In Peru, officials abandon plans to host the lucrative Dakar Rally and prepare instead for torrential rains and devastating floods.

And in Ethiopia, crops perish for lack of seasonal rain as United Nations officials warn of imminent famine.

Although many Californians hope forecasts of a "Godzilla" El Niño will deliver drought-busting rains this winter, mention of the mysterious climate phenomenon inspires dread in much of the world.

Its long-distance, or teleconnected, effects are so great that some researchers argue it doubles the risk of war in much of the Third World.

"It's a spawner of hazards everywhere," said El Niño researcher Michael "Mickey" Glantz, director of the Consortium for Capacity Building at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

https://www.latimes.com/local/califor...html#nt=outfit

[Robrites]

Might be time to get those slow finishers harvested....

Nearly 20 inches of snow could fall on the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite National Park to north of Lake Tahoe this week. Drivers could find blocked and buried mountain passes this Thanksgiving holiday, authorities warned.

A massive storm, reaching across about half of the state, is expected to move in Tuesday and peak Wednesday, where it will drop up to 18 inches of snow on mountain summits from Shasta County and Lake Tahoe to Yosemite, said Nathan Owen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

[DuskrayTroubador]

Not much we can do to prepare for lots of rain. Strain selection, the normal mold/pm precautions. Tie shit up and hunker down

[aridbud]

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst........

[Manastasis]

If gnna be xtra wet season: rot resistant strains and soil that drains...