El Niño Does Something It's Never Done Before. Watch Out, California.

[ashling]

My first thought upon seeing this picture was a map of North & Central America superimposed over a NASA image of the sun

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This winter, California can expect heavy rains, floods and mudslides, but snow levels (elevation of rain snow line, not amounts) will be high because moisture flows from the tropics in an El Niño winter are warm and wet. California’s water situation will improve but ground water levels are unlikely to rebound to levels seen before the drought began. One year’s rains will not alleviate the long-term water problems caused by the record California drought but reservoir levels will rebound.



http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/16/1450700/-El-Ni-o-Does-Something-It-s-Never-Done-Before-Watch-Out-California?detail=facebook

[itsrobert]

1. How far we off from Hurricanes and Tornados hitting on the West Coast?

Hurricanes hit Southern Baja California already, it wouldn't take too much of a change before they start hitting California.

"History shows a hurricane landfall is possible, but if it happened, it would be in Southern California. On Oct. 2, 1858, a hurricane came ashore and caused widespread damage in San Diego. That unnamed hurricane was the last, and only, example on record of a hurricane coming ashore on the West Coast."

http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/california-hurricane-chances