WTF is with this bleeping weather?

[Angel Oracle]

So, in other words, SoCal is permanently out of luck at the rate we are going?

It might be several years before the next El Nino comes along.   If this one is garbage, that's how long we'll have to wait.

By that time, Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake and all other lakes in SoCal, might be history.  

[Hollyw00d]

AO you are the Juan Savage of weather

[Adam]

I've never asked anyone what they think of OC and gotten "where's all the rain?" as a response.

[fan_since79]

Gonna be really cold tonight.

 

Woodland Hills, a predicted low of 29.

[Amazing Larry]

Looks like the skies are going to open up and pee on us come Sunday/Monday.

[Homebrewer]

Snowpack report:

 

Official: California snowpack at 136 percent of normal

 

 

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/regulators-california-snowpack-deepens-amid-long-drought-105648436.html

[Gavin]

From AO's favorite people, NOAA:

 

"IF MODELS CONTINUE TO TREND TOWARDS THE COLD AIR ALOFT AND STRONG JET DYNAMICS...MAY EVEN NEED TO INTRODUCE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT TIME FRAME. WHILE IT IS STILL EARLY...PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES INDICATE THE POTENTIAL FOR TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN NEXT WEEK ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA...ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY SNOW AMOUNTS AT RESORT LEVELS."

[Redondo]

• Temperatures at North Pole spike almost 50 degrees

There has been a heat wave of sorts in the North Pole this week that might even have Santa trading in his sleigh for swim trunks.

Temperatures were as much as 50 degrees above average on Wednesday– almost reaching 32 degrees Fahrenheit in portions of the Arctic Circle that average 20 below zero at this time of year.

Meteorologists and experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration blame the strange weather on winter cyclones over the Atlantic near Iceland that pushed warm air far up from the south. Another storm in the Arctic north of Greenland - helped by low-pressure system that also produced blizzards in New Mexico, tornadoes in Texas and flooding in Missouri - was also to blame.

 

Arctic sea ice reached its fourth-lowest extent on record on Sept. 11, 2015.

 

 

[Gavin]

2-4 inches expected for next week with several feet expected in the Sierras where it's needed most. Self ban for AO if we get less than two inches?

[Hollyw00d]

Humid today what's up with that

[Adam]

Supposed to rain all week according to the weather app. AO will be happy. I'm thinking we will probably get at least a half-dozen auto fatalities in the south land for those keeping track of the morning line

[Blarg]

My commute is going to be the 7th level of hell and all I can envision is AO cackling like a mad Lucifer the whole week .

[Glen]

SoCal DJs are getting their rain song playlists together and cackling with joy.

Edited January 3, 2016 by Glen

[Hollyw00d]

Cats and dogs this whole week

[Glen]

It's a good feeling to be prescient enough to change your wiper blades the day before a rain storm hits.  Thanks, weather.com!

[Homebrewer]

 

THE NEXT MORE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER SYSTEM IS MOVING QUICKLY EAST
ALONG 135W AND FORECAST MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW VERY GOOD
AGREEMENT IN BRINGING THIS FEATURE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA ON
TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR
THE SIERRA. FOR SUBSEQUENT WEATHER SYSTEMS, WINTER WEATHER
WATCHES, WARNINGS OR ADVISORIES WILL NEED TO BE ISSUED ON A CASE
BY CASE BASIS HOWEVER IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT MORE WILL BE NEEDED
OVER THE NEXT WEEK OR SO. GIVEN THIS,THE THIRD SYSTEM , LOCATED AT
140W IS PROGGED TO ARRIVE WEDNESDAY WITH YET A FOURTH IMPULSE
ARRIVING THURSDAY. AS YOU CAN SEE THIS IS A MOST ACTIVE PATTERN.

A LOOK AT THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERIC WATER VAPOR SATELLITE COMPOSITE
SHOWS SYSTEMS LINED UP ALL THE WAY BACK TO CHINA AND INDIA AND THE
ECMWF MODEL THROUGH 240 HOURS (10 DAYS) BRINGS 7 SYSTEMS TO
CALIFORNIA DURING THIS TIME PERIOD. RATHER IMPRESSIVE TO SAY THE
LEAST.

[Glen]

Thanks, AObama.

[Amazing Larry]

Can't wait to snowboard Tahoe in a couple weeks. There's gonna be some epic pow-pow brah.

[Amazing Larry]

So did this storm completely miss OC or what?

[Gavin]

So did this storm completely miss OC or what?

 

Didn't miss. Too much dry air in the lower atmosphere weakened the storm. This first storm wasn't supposed to be strong in the first place. The big ones are on track for tomorrow and Wednesday night.

[Angel Oracle]

There's been too much dry air for 4 years and 9 months now.

Judge Smails wants a word with Mother Nature.    "Well?    We're waiting!"

Edited January 4, 2016 by Angel Oracle

[Guest]

Where's the rain? What a disappointment.

[gotbeer]

Yeah, what a bummer of a rainstorm. 

 

Or channeling my inner AO.  El Nada.

[Hollyw00d]

There's been too much dry air for 4 years and 9 months now.

Judge Smails wants a word with Mother Nature. "Well? We're waiting!"

Me tomorrow on the freeway:

"Hey! You scratched my anchor!"

[Hollyw00d]

El Nino?

More like, El None, Yo!