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What I'd like to know is whether or not any dips in the eastern US will be able to reach farther south/east into places like the eastern gulf coast or even central Florida. Last winter, that didn't really happen until like February.
If the warm blob in the Pacific moves farther east towards the western Canadian coast, I guess that would allow the Bermuda High to move farther east, allowing the south Atlantic states to get in on the cold action more this winter.
I'm not an expert on that. I would think extra warm water off the SE coast would pop up a ridge there. The really cold N. Atlantic throws a screw into everything right now. Who knows what that will do.
The Bermuda high has been pretty non existent the last few years. Even this year has it ever really showed up?
This really has gotta stop. I feel like throwing up. NASA using God and El Nino now? Wtf. Hopefully Im wrong cause I didn't read it yet but judging by the back and forth tweets it would **** me off to read. So typical.
An interesting short article about competing "warm blobs", basically the developing El Nino and the ever present blob in the NE Pacific. Again, they are saying all bets are off with this El Nino due to that blob.
But this time around, there are other things brewing in the Pacific: patches of freakishly warm water spread far and wide, up the California coast to the persistently warm vortex, hundreds of miles across, christened by climate scientists as “the Blob.”
“That is definitely the wildcard with this El Niño,” warns Bill Patzert, a climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena and an advisor to federal El Niño forecasters.
He says unlike in 1997, the Blob has been a fixture during the current drought. It’s essentially the sidekick of that “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge,” the stubborn bubble of high-pressure that’s been parked off the north coast for the past couple of years, diverting winter storms up and around California.
Patzert agrees the current El Niño is looking like a monster — “Godzilla,” to use his favorite moniker. But he’s concerned the Blob and its ridge could become at least partial spoilers, blocking out storms from the northern Pacific, leaving the door open only for El Niño-driven storms from the tropics. That could mean Southern California gets a soaking, but the northern part of the state — where most of the major reservoirs are — misses out.
“There is almost certainly going to be a dividing line,” says Stanford climate scientist Daniel Swain. “And it’s possible that dividing line could occur somewhere in Northern California.”
But you didn't mention how the "blob" is a very different animal and is still there. This won't be the same as 1997-98 unless that blob magically disappears. It's been solid for two years and isn't budging. It sometimes wanes, and then comes back even stronger.
The last two winters the blob created a stuck ridge over the west coast. With El Niño at the same time, it could do something completely different, El Niño down by the equator will affect the rushing patterns and jet stream
But you didn't mention how the "blob" is a very different animal and is still there. This won't be the same as 1997-98 unless that blob magically disappears. It's been solid for two years and isn't budging. It sometimes wanes, and then comes back even stronger.
Just messing around about it because there seems to be a some sort of "hype" about it, and the "winners" and "losers" thing is just a hopeful prediction, or for some at least. I saw the "Godzilla El Nino" thing on Instagram and laughed about it. People in the "weather-business" or climatologist definitely like to embellish about weather and weather-related events.
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The last two winters the blob created a stuck ridge over the west coast. With El Niño at the same time, it could do something completely different, El Niño down by the equator will affect the rushing patterns and jet stream
Yeah, looks like the Pacific Northwest will be heading for a relatively dry winter or at least for their standards, I'd suppose... similar to last winter cause of the "blob".
I didn't see the Fox bit but gees. The words and things they are using to put inside the public's mind is insane. Ruining conversations about weather and Climate
All joking aside.. isn't that exactly what brainwashing is? When you embed words and images to persuade and make someone believe something using forcible pressure?
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