Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	Question about El Niño....
Date:	5/10/2019 9:51:15 AM (updated 5/10/2019 10:05:17 AM)

The world has been under the influence of a cyclical phenomenon known as El Niño since September ‘18, yet I haven’t heard the word mentioned on weather reports, etc.   Yes, we hear about “climate change” continuously, but has the NWS gone totally political, and now everything is climate change, and nothing is nature doing her thing?

BTW, during El Niño ‘98-‘99, I read where New Orleans rainfall was 100”, forty inches above normal.  The rain we’ve had since Sept is El Niño, not climate change, including what we’ll get this weekend.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Question about El Niño....
Date:	5/10/2019 11:26:58 AM

Of course they are not going to talk about El Nino or La Nina and how these normal ocean cycles impact the weather patterns worldwide.  Nor will they discuss the normal cycles of the sun and that we are in a Maunder Minimum which is usually accompanied by lower global temps.  This is an 11-year cycle so wait until the next Maunder Maximum and the corresponding higher global temps and you will hear non-stop chatter about global warming caused by CO2.  It's like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.  Our last two max events were in around 2000 and 2015.  Go back and look at the news during those timeframes and you will see blaring headlines about record temps, climate change, etc.  When you normalize for the Maunder mins and maxes you will see that global temps have been fairly stable over the last two decades. Again, not what you will read in the news.

The impact of man-made emmissions on global temps is at best wildy overstated and at worst a complete hoax.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Question about El Niño....
Date:	5/10/2019 2:15:11 PM

Tell us...will this summer be exceptionally hot or just a normal summer?

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Question about El Niño....
Date:	5/10/2019 2:46:28 PM

Depends on where you live since the effect of these short term cycles impacts different places differently.  I would guess in the SE this summer will be comparable to last summer.  But trying to use macro climate impacts into weather forecasting is not exactly an exact science.  Heck, the NWS can't tell us with any certainty what the weather will be like tomorrow, let alone a week, month, year, decade, etc. from now.

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	GOOF-COMMIE.....
Date:	5/10/2019 2:47:52 PM

In language you will understand......the summer will be hot and dry if Trump is impeached by the idiot dimokraps and CNN is #1 “news” network; otherwise, it will be a normal warm and wet El Niño summer.  We can all be guaranteed a normal El Niño....if intelligent people rule!!  Got it?

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	GOOF-COMMIE.....
Date:	5/10/2019 3:05:59 PM

I wish this "wet" would go away - yard work is hard enough without having to wear hip waders.

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	Question about El Niño....
Date:	5/11/2019 6:28:38 PM

Normal depends on how old you are.

Geologicaly speaking... for the Cenozoic Period... we are very warm, but, declining toward the next ice age.  The warmest time in the current interglacial period was 8000 years ago.

Name:	Carlson -	Reply
Subject:	Question about El Niño....
Date:	5/12/2019 8:45:59 AM

So if I’m 8,000 years old I’ve seen all this before?!

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Question about El Niño....
Date:	5/13/2019 8:35:30 AM

If you are 8000 years old I think you have bigger problems then worrying about the weather.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Question about El Niño....
Date:	5/13/2019 10:12:05 PM

Yep, you would have people beating down your door wanting to know your secret, lol.