El Niño-like weather increases California precipitation in response to warming

Re:El Niño-like weather increases California precipitation i... by abritinthebay on Thursday July 06, 2017 @06:04PM (#14714319)

Remember: CA is STILL in a drought (mostly just SoCal, but still). It's just had a really good winter season that means it's likely to be not the utter trash fire the last few summers were.

For years CA has got worse and worse drought wise - one great year of rain that brought the state back from Exceptional and Extreme drought levels across almost the entire state to still Abnormal or Severe in about 25% of the state is really just a blip.

Like... one year is a data-point, not a pattern, and even if CA gets more rain in the winter it would appear to be getting hotter in the summer which is really not good.

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Re:El Niño-like weather increases California precipitation i... by djrogers on Thursday July 06, 2017 @06:39PM (#14714540)

> it would appear to be getting hotter in the summer

Hasn’t really been the case this year so far.

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Re:El Niño-like weather increases California precipitation i... by abritinthebay on Thursday July 06, 2017 @07:35PM (#14714844)

We're like... 6 days into July. The hottest period in CA weather is July-September. Somewhat early to call.

Plus, again, the rain and weather in winter and spring is record breakingly anomalous this year. So "this year so far" is not really a sane comparison.

The trend overall has been clear. Using this year is like when people say "we had record snowfall in upstate NY this year, so much for global warming, nyuk nyuk". It doesn't follow.

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