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DuskrayTroubador · 12-11-2015, 08:27 PM

...why the fuck would you drive your car into floodwaters?

Robrites · 12-12-2015, 12:39 AM

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.

_tessarecting · 12-12-2015, 01:01 AM

Moar snow!

Robrites · 12-12-2015, 07:37 PM

Robrites · 12-13-2015, 04:21 PM

trichrider · 12-13-2015, 09:19 PM

https://spaceweathernews.com/

12-14-2015, 02:55 AM

Hot and dry here on maui

oldchuck · 12-14-2015, 04:06 AM

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.

Robrites · 12-17-2015, 04:34 PM

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.”

_tessarecting · 12-21-2015, 07:25 PM

A steady 24 hours of rain and flash flood warning in norcal where the fires were bad!

12-11-2015, 08:27 PM	#31
DuskrayTroubador Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 1,046	...why the fuck would you drive your car into floodwaters? __________________ If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birthright, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; on the now un- haunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove’s high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it. — HERMAN MELVILLE, from Moby Dick
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12-12-2015, 12:39 AM	#32
Robrites Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Orygun Posts: 3,220	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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12-12-2015, 01:01 AM	#33
_tessarecting ஓ Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 3,852	Moar snow!
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12-12-2015, 07:37 PM	#34
Robrites Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Orygun Posts: 3,220	Today
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12-13-2015, 04:21 PM	#35
Robrites Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Orygun Posts: 3,220	Western U.S. Weather
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12-13-2015, 09:19 PM	#36
trichrider THEORETICAL Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: between CB1 and the singularity. Posts: 7,046	https://spaceweathernews.com/ __________________ "I'm not always a dick...but when I am, I drink cheap beer".
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12-14-2015, 02:55 AM	#37
strandloper Guest Posts: n/a	Hot and dry here on maui
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12-14-2015, 04:06 AM	#38
oldchuck Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,111	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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12-17-2015, 04:34 PM	#39
Robrites Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Orygun Posts: 3,220	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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12-21-2015, 07:25 PM	#40
_tessarecting ஓ Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 3,852	A steady 24 hours of rain and flash flood warning in norcal where the fires were bad!
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