Saturday, September 18, 2010

La Niña update from JPL satellite topography

La Niña is smack dab on the Equator, according to the sea surface height data

La Niña chills the Pacific

This could be a worsening drought year for the Southwest, something they don't need. And this won't do the snowpack in the Rockies and the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada any favors, either.

"After more than a decade of mostly dry years on the Colorado River watershed and in the American Southwest, and only one normal rain year in the past five years in Southern California, water supplies are dangerously low," [Bill] Patzert added. "This La Niña could deepen the drought in the already parched Southwest and could also worsen conditions that have fueled Southern California's recent deadly wildfires."

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