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Friday’s top of the scroll: El Niño may still give us a wet winter, weather experts say, but what’s in the forecast?

Posted by: Maven on January 8, 2010 at 8:56 am

From the Sacramento Bee:

“El Niño was predicted to dominate the weather this winter, but a look out the window suggests that forecast has fizzled.

Sacramento rainfall so far this winter is merely normal, and the Sierra Nevada snowpack is only 84 percent of average.

But don’t give up on El Niño just yet.

Several weather experts predict El Niño will soon crank open the faucet and blow away the cold, gray skies that have gripped the Sacramento region for weeks. They expect much wetter weather through March.

“I’m not wringing my hands terribly much,” said Tim Barnett, a climate researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. “Odds are good to see some pretty good storms later in the winter,” he said. “How much rain, nobody can really tell you. All I can tell you is, it will be in the upper third of all the wet years.” … “

Read more from the Sacramento Bee by clicking here.

Wow, upper third of wet years. Let’s hope he’s right! Meanwhile, Accu-Weather’s Western Weather Blog puts out the forecast:

” … I can guarantee it will be dry across the southern half of California, most all of Nevada and all of Utah and Arizona through the weekend. Now early next week I am still expecting this ridge to break down and allow a stronger storm to move through. … “

but also says:

” … I still do not see the signs of a persistent storm track across the South. You and I can both look at the super long range GFS and see that it is showing a potentially stormier southern track of storms toward Jan 22-23. But to tell you the truth I might as well get the Ouija Board out too as it probably has as much chance of verifying that far out.”

So for the time being, El Nino continues to be El No Show. Read more from the Accu-Weather Western Weather Blog by clicking here.

Sunny and warm, sunny and warm. Yawn. So what’s a meteorologist to do? Our weather’s so boring, the Science Dude says this weather guy’s retiring and leaving for Idaho.

January 8, 2010 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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