So Where's El Niño? (Phoenix, Scottsdale: appointed, 2015, allergies)

[Mike Warner]

Originally Posted by Potential_Landlord

So what's normal about this El Nino? I have not seen anything normal about it here.

"it's not happening here so it's not happening"

This El Ninio is evident in many parts of the west, parts of south western Canada and north west USA haven't seen snow in 5 or 6 weeks. Temperatures have been well above normal just as predicted and California is getting rain. Noah..what were you expecting?

[JGMotorsport64]

Originally Posted by New Horizons

Why is everybody so wishing for some water to fall out of the sky anyway? Jeeze, go stand under your shower for a few minutes. Rain makes those little weeds pop up in my rock lawn, it messes up my "Zen" appeal. Then I have to break out the hardcore weed killer, whick might end up in your drinking water. You...don't want weed killer in your drinking water now do you?

No, but without rain, you poison just soaks into the vast dry soil where water should be

[Potential_Landlord]

Originally Posted by Mike Warner

"it's not happening here so it's not happening"

This El Ninio is evident in many parts of the west, parts of south western Canada and north west USA haven't seen snow in 5 or 6 weeks. Temperatures have been well above normal just as predicted and California is getting rain. Noah..what were you expecting?

That's all fine and good for them. If I had 5 inches of snow instead of 50 I would weep for joy. Unfortunately if the "new normal global warming El Nino" means no rains / no cooler weather for Arizona any more as in a normal weather pattern then we have a problem here, Houston. We cannot have our already dangerous natural drought / heat cycles amplified to the least degree. I do not want my RE value to go to zero because it is too dry / hot here.
So once again a normal El Nino pattern would have given us more rain and cooler weather this winter. It did not happen and that is alarming. It does not help us here that the weather pattern is normal elsewhere. Our threat is too much dryness and heat and not even El Nino helps.

[wit-nit]

El Nino is doing the 'happy dance' with La Nina near the equator. As soon as they finish their act, they will be coming to a neighborhood near you...
Where Is El Nino? And Why Do We Care? | Climate Central

[BIG CATS]

I actually got a little bit of rain in Scottsdale on Sunday. It was laughable (lasted maybe 90 seconds), but it was rain.

[boulder2015]

Originally Posted by Potential_Landlord

That's all fine and good for them. If I had 5 inches of snow instead of 50 I would weep for joy. Unfortunately if the "new normal global warming El Nino" means no rains / no cooler weather for Arizona any more as in a normal weather pattern then we have a problem here, Houston. We cannot have our already dangerous natural drought / heat cycles amplified to the least degree. I do not want my RE value to go to zero because it is too dry / hot here.
So once again a normal El Nino pattern would have given us more rain and cooler weather this winter. It did not happen and that is alarming. It does not help us here that the weather pattern is normal elsewhere. Our threat is too much dryness and heat and not even El Nino helps.

Are you in phx? Ive routinely heard on this board that phx has plenty of water and is not worried about the sw drought. That always seemed very odd to me, but i dont know anything about their aquifers.

[ajonesaz]

Originally Posted by Mike Warner

+20? since when is 60 normal?

69 is the average high for the first few weeks of February and we were flirting with record highs around 87-88. So 20 degrees is pretty accurate. We were about 15 degrees above normal for a LARGE majority of February. Are you not from around here?

[Mike Warner]

Originally Posted by ajonesaz

69 is the average high for the first few weeks of February and we were flirting with record highs around 87-88. So 20 degrees is pretty accurate. We were about 15 degrees above normal for a LARGE majority of February. Are you not from around here?

Try reading the post I quoted "
Originally Posted by Eva Braun
I would also add "high-pressure system parked over this region keeping things nice and 20+ degrees warmer than normal" to that forecast.

The "forecast" as in up and coming. 60 is not the norm for this time of year. Where do you live?

Forecast=FUTURE.

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by BIG CATS

I actually got a little bit of rain in Scottsdale on Sunday. It was laughable (lasted maybe 90 seconds), but it was rain.

I think I did, too. I heard it but wasn't sure if that is really what it was.

[Valley Native]

For those who think this warm, dry weather is actually normal for February & March, think again. No rain in February is highly unusual, especially during an El Niño season. The way things look, March could be very much the same (despite all the predictions). How rare is it to have no rain in both February & March? It only happened one other time in Phoenix history.

Rare? No rain in nearly 40 days | 12NEWS.com

However, long term models are showing no rainfall here in the Valley of the Sun through March. If no rains falls this month it would be only the second time, since records began in Phoenix, that no rain has fallen during February and March.