The Weather Has Trolled Southland

[fynoda]

Comments

[king]

damn that's intense. kind of hard to imagine all this rain and snow damage is happening everywhere from the perspective of the central midwest, where absolutely nothing has happened weather-wise since summer ended.

[zhukora1]

I thought La Nina was the dry one and El Nino was the wet one? I don't think this one is either, though. I'm pretty sure it's actually the Pineapple Express.

[circuscookies]

Luckily I live on a hill so we missed the flooding. But my grandma and school got a fun taste of it. I've never seen it rain this much in the 12 years I've lived here.

[ugasaiki]

And yet people still try to deny the existence of global warming.

[zhukora1]

Just because there is a set of terms for certain meteorological phenomena and patterns in which you are more likely to see them, doesn't mean they are necessarily "normal". I've lived in SoCal all my life, and yes, El Nino has periodically dropped huge amounts of rain on us, and yes, the disasters that follow are pretty predictable. Where I live this year's storm was small potatoes compare to the 1998 El Nino, but the overall pattern of weather this year has been extremely unusual (and hell, the weather over the last few years has been shifting significantly, even if up until now it was still mostly in the range of "normal"), and it would be naive to assume that this unusual weather hasn't had some impact on the intensity of the storm, or to look at it as part of the larger picture.

[new_shit]

I live in Ventura County, close to La Conchita, and I haven't heard any of this till now.

[blasphemusfish]

Ahaha the Porsche picture, those dudes are all: OMG A PORSCHE, WE GOTTA SAVE IT. GO GO GO