WTF is with this bleeping weather?

[fan_since79]

There is rain in the forecast for the next five days. AO will be ecstatic.

[Angel Oracle]

About an inch from these systems is expected through Sunday/Monday.

I'll take it!

[Vegas Halo Fan]

We are in our first day of what is supposed to be three consecutive days of rain.

[Redondo]

Got rain on Friday, little bit Saturday and it looks like it going to rain on Sunday.

 

 

We could use the rain here

[Adam]

80s and sunny next weekend! Woohoo

[fan_since79]

There was some light rain for a few minutes around 2 am and that was it.

 

Gone. No more in the ten-day forecast. So now, eight straight months of dry ahead.

[Homebrewer]

3+ inches up here from Fri night to Sun morn...then light drizzle most of the day Sun.

Once again the rain that you SoCal folks were supposed to get wound up here?

I did see that Santa Anita Derby was run in the mud, so you guys must have gotten some precip.

[Angel Oracle]

Orange County got only about a quarter of an inch of rain.

The good news is: no Halos games postponed!

[Blarg]

My pool gained 2" of water over the weekend, it is all about where you live in SoCal.

[Angel Oracle]

I'm ready for the warm weather now.

[gotbeer]

It was nice and warm at the driving range today.  Made me want to play a few holes of shoveling snowballs, but didn't have the time.

[Guest]

I'm ready for the warm weather now.

El Niño is in full force today. 

[gotbeer]

I blame AO for all this damn wind we are getting.  Oh and I also blame AO for this. 

 

El Nino To Pave Way For La Nina, Setting Major Shift In Weather Patterns

 

It's going to be a hot dry summer. 

 

Then again, these same weathermen predicted a really wet wet El Nino winter, and it was opposite.  So we'll probably see snow in the summer.

[Angel Oracle]

I learned not to trust NOAA again, since some of the European models were much more accurate this year.

[Homebrewer]

Once again just for you AO..
Read the article..

A Quiet Revolution in Weather Forecasting

The game may soon change with the emergence of commercial weather satellites, which embody Moore’s Law in being smaller, faster, and cheaper.


Small, relatively cheap and quickly upgradable microsatellites could soon make weather prediction far more reliable


The wake-up call that led to the recent NOAA supercomputer upgrade was when the European weather model correctly predicted the storm track of Hurricane Sandy, better than the US model. Hurricane Sandy was the deadliest hurricane in the northeastern United States in 40 years and the second-costliest in the nation's history.


http://blogs.scienti...er-forecasting/

Edited April 15, 2016 by Homebrewer

[Blarg]

I'm ready for the warm weather now.

 

Really? I'm ready for another weather front with more rain. Let it rain, AO, or do you want to extend the drought?

[Angel Oracle]

I'd rather have some rain of course. It is getting pretty much to the close of the rainy season.

But if it doesn't happen, just have to hope that the drought is busted next autumn/winter.

[fan_since79]

No rain in the two-week. Very warm this weekend, but cooling off to the 70's for the rest of the time.

[Taylor]

Lol @ Southern California peeps talking and complaining about the weather.

It's mid-April and we could get 2-3 feet of snow this weekend in Colorado Springs.

[Mark68]

Ha..only about a foot or a little less here in SE Denver.

[Homebrewer]

Summer is switched to ON up here in the mountains.

80's yesterday and the next few days.

Wildflowers everywhere.

It's suddenly weed eater season, got some tall stuff to wack this year. (fire compliance)

[Homebrewer]

Well, well...had to look around for this thread. First time it's been off the front page for months.

 

Anyhow...there's some late summer-like weather moving into Ca in late spring. Unstable and convective low with considerable moisture will have a good chance of T-storms throughout central and socal over the next several days...especially in the mountains and foothills.

From NOAA..

.SYNOPSIS...

AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL APPROACH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TODAY AND

THEN MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THIS

SYSTEM WILL BRING THE THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO MUCH OF

THE REGION ALONG WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES.

.DISCUSSION...

SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW AN UPPER LOW OFF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

COAST. MODERATE SOUTH WINDS AT 50KTS BRINGING AN INCREASE OF MID

TO UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE INTO CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. IR IMAGES SHOW

RAPIDLY COOLING TOPS OVER THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST DUE TO WIND

SPEED MAX AND DIVERGENCE ALOFT. SATELLITE ESTIMATES OF

PRECIPITABLE WATER RUNNING NEAR 150 PERCENT OF NORMAL.

[Redondo]

Why did El Niño miss SoCal? It's complicated,...

[gotbeer]

3 hours ago, Redondo said:

Why did El Niño miss SoCal? It's complicated,...

Or the weather forcasters are a bunch of overpaid chimps.

[Angel Oracle]

This coming winter dryer than normal?    Hard to increase dryness from being just about totally dry for 5 years running.