RegGuheert wrote:I doubt it. I believe you need BOTH higher humidity AND condensation nuclei to get more rain and/or snow. If the air is very dry, then there will not be more rain.Nubo wrote:Will the smoke particles provide more condensation nuclei in the atmosphere, leading to a wetter winter?
I guess what I am saying is that without the jetstream moving back to where it used to be, there will not be a significant amount of rainfall in your part of the world.WetEV wrote:RegGuheert wrote:I doubt it. I believe you need BOTH higher humidity AND condensation nuclei to get more rain and/or snow. If the air is very dry, then there will not be more rain.Nubo wrote:Will the smoke particles provide more condensation nuclei in the atmosphere, leading to a wetter winter?
I doubt it for a different reason. Smoke particles have a limited lifetime in the atmosphere. By winter, the fires should be out, and the atmosphere should mostly be clear of smoke particles.
California Governor Warns of Coming Climate Refugee Crisis
A strong El Niño is predicted to help ease drought conditions in some, but not all of California.
The U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook, released Thursday, Oct. 15, by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center shows a strong El Niño improving drought conditions across central and southern California by the end of January...
"For the Southwest, El Niño associated climate anomalies favor an enhancement of the early wet season," the CPC says. "Therefore, drought improvement is favored across central and southern California."
But the drought is forecast to persist or intensify across northern California, northern Nevada and all of Oregon and Washington...
Despite the outlook for improvement, the drought in California isn't going away. Halpert says "a wetter-than-average winter is unlikely to erase four years of drought."..
The next seasonal outlook will be issued November 19.
palmermd wrote:http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-hair-raising-flight-over-California-s-dying-9127084.php#photo-10711388
Lots of dead trees. Sad to see.
GRA wrote:Last winter was fairly average for snow, but we need a few more like it before the forests will be healthy again.
WetEV wrote:GRA wrote:Last winter was fairly average for snow, but we need a few more like it before the forests will be healthy again.
The average is changing. What will the forests look like with the new average? And the average after that?