Return of El Nino
Eastern Pacific Hurricane Ioke, packing winds of 160 mph, is expected to cross the International Dateline on Sunday, becoming a typhoon, and so match Hurricane/Typhoon Ele, which also was spawned...
View ArticleEl Nino returns
Austin meteorologist Bob Rose says the federal Climate Prediction Center made the call Monday and the weather service will issue a news release on it tomorrow. Big rains a’comin’, probably. "…the...
View ArticleEl Nino part 2
Rain is coming down hard at times at the Rancho with already four inches in some spots across the city, and a flash flood warning and a tornado watch until 2 p.m. It’s ponding on the walks in the back...
View ArticleAdios Longhorns
El Nino is being merciless, away down there off the coast of Peru, so it looks like Mr. B. and his Tiger Cub buds will not be making a Longhorns practice for the fourth Thursday in a row. Because the...
View ArticleDry November
Meteorologist Bob Rose of the Lower Colorado River Authority offers some thoughts on the dry spell. "Weather conditions have been unusually dry this month, with most areas so far reporting little to no...
View ArticleHere comes the rain
Lower Colorado River Authority meteorologist Bob Rose says the jetstream is turning south and we may finally begin to get some of the rain the El Nino oscillation has been promising since Turkey Day....
View ArticleMore drought ahead
That’s the apparent forecast, according to KVUE chief meteorologist Mark Murray, and the latest data on the El Nino Southern Oscillation, which is oscillating in an unfortunate (for us) direction:...
View ArticleWinter still, and dry
Another very cold morning at the Rancho. Winter should be almost over for us by now, but we aquired some more arctic air overnight which looks to be hanging around right on through the weekend,...
View ArticleRain ahead…
Well, a reasonable chance for some tomorrow night, anyhow, which will feel good after today’s hundred degree heat (it’s 100 in the city at the moment). But the real chances, according to the federal...
View ArticleLa Nina or no?
Why does it matter? If she arrives early, say mid- to late-summer, we could have another dry scorcher. Then, as she strengthens in the fall into the winter, a warmer and drier winter. Or not. The...
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