Drought

Where I'm at now didn't have a very good winter, but managed better than most of the West. The valley just to the south of here only received 30% of normal precipitation last winter. For much of the West this is the second consecutive drought year.

LeSt the east is out of it.

Isnt all this in line with a la nina summer though? West usually gets drought and wildfires, then the east usually gets droughts and wildfires during el nino...or the other way around, i cant remember

Sir Pun wrote:Isnt all this in line with a la nina summer though? West usually gets drought and wildfires, then the east usually gets droughts and wildfires during el nino...or the other way around, i cant remember

No, this is two years in a row (la nina would be one) and this is far worse than those cycles would usually result in. La Nina also usually resulted in a bit more of a high elevation snow pack in the Sierra Nevada, last winter we hardly had one at all...

Sir Pun wrote:Isnt all this in line with a la nina summer though? West usually gets drought and wildfires, then the east usually gets droughts and wildfires during el nino...or the other way around, i cant remember

The Texas hill country has been in drought for the past several years. It is getting bad around there.

I think these things run in cycles.  Seems like we had drought here a few years ago.  Now its raining several days a week.

I thought elnino-lanina was a biannual event.