Southern California to be hit hard by a developing El Nino Pattern

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Southern California to be hit hard by a developing El Nino Pattern 

 Published on June 10, 2012 - 6:55 UT
- By TWS Staff Reporter
- Edited by TWS Editor

(TheWeatherSpace.com) - Forecasters across the planet are watching a developing scenario in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. This scenario is the El Nino, which comes strong only eight times a century.

TWS' Southern California Weather Authority is gearing up for what may be a deadly storm season from Fall through Spring of this coming year. 

 "The 2012 to 2013 El Nino looks to be a high impact event," said Senior Meteorologist Kevin Martin. "This will be a dangerous time for us in Southern California, especially those in the flood prone zones. Flooding is going to be very common this coming rainy season!"

Last year , Southern California's mountain resorts failed to get the needed snow to make a good season. Many; whom buy season passes, were very upset at mother nature.

"This year we are looking at a spectacular resort season," said Martin. "So if you have doubts about another mountain resort season pass then do not hesitate to buy them when they go on sale. This year will have above normal snow in Southern California's mountain resorts."

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The question is, when will El Nino make it's presence felt ? Summer or this winter ? Actually this summer has already proven that Southern California has already felt it's effect from a greater and more intense Monsoonal Moisture flow season. Places like New Mexico felt less of this traditional moisture flow. This mirrors almost exactly the situation of early 1980  to 1986 where both winter and summer rainfall were heavier than normal.

(Reuters) Weather center: 50 percent chance of El Nino later this year

NEW YORK | Fri Jun 8, 2012 7:44am IST

(Reuters) - There is a 50 percent chance the feared El Nino weather pattern which can trigger droughts in Southeast Asia and Australia and floods in South America may strike later this year, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center warned on Thursday.

Such a potential for a Prophetic 2012/2013 Rainy Season weather news brings back memories for many folks in Southern California who were around back in the 1980s during the notorious flood events of that 1980 decade when El Nino really got it's reputation as the bad boy wetter-weather phenomena. I remember those times well. Not only were all the winter rainfall records broken just about everywhere in Southern California, but these years were also known for heavy summer monsoonal thunderstorm seasons where those Thunderbumpers often working in teams as opposed to the common localized individuals, didn't confine themselves to only the mountains and deserts which is normal, but rather ventured much further west over as far as the Pacific coastline.

There have been other times like in 1993 when I lived up in Anza, California. This was a very heavy rain year. The weather pattern up in So-Cal mountains is nothing like the weather often seen and visualized from those touristy postcards. Weather is often as cold and heavily wet as anywhere back east. But I remember this particular year was insane. In the Southern California Mountains, even when the storm technically passes over into Arizona and all points east, cloud layer masses continue to hug the higher elevations, almost as if not wanting to leave. Our home was actually 450 foot above Anza Valley which was already at 4000' level. At that height you are actually up in the storm clouds, not just under their influence. It's cloudy, foggy and the rain fiercely driving sideways. It seemed as if it had been that way for weeks on end. Finally tired of living under those conditions and even though the rain was still down pouring with constant steady squalls, we decided it was time to go somewhere and do ANYTHING but hang around there at home in the dark & gloom. 

The idea came up that a trip to Olde Town Temecula and lookie-looing thru Antique stores would be fun, even if it was raining. And it did - CONSTANTLY!!! We parked our Toyota Forerunner down in Public Parking next to this old time historical bridge. Now below is an updated photo from WeatherCurrents.com & photo by Greg Turbeville, but it illustrates the same exact historical old bridge. The parking lot was on the other side of this shot on the left hand side. We were there for several hours in the afternoon. From the time we left home at around noon Saturday to the time we left and went back up the mountain around around 5:00 in the evening it downpour rain with no intermittent breaks at all. Here's that bridge.

Now visualize for a moment here water so high that it was up to the white railings on this bridge, in fact on the left hand side is where the water was coming from by moving through to the right in the photo. The left side had strong wave after wave currents fiercely slapping those rails on that side. When we first arrived and parked, the water was just about as high as you see it here. After we ate at the Bank of Mexican Food, we walked around town going from store to store and all the while I'd look down the street just to check and see the water levels rising by our parking lot. When it finally was bashing the north side of that bridge,  I said to my wife, we need to get out of here. We got in the Toyota and drove north towards Rancho California Road, seen here in this photo again from WeatherCurrents.com & Greg Turbeville.

Now keep in mind that this bridge was also having water issues as the downstream bridge, but here it was actually flowing over the bridge which they quickly had blocked off and these waters were actually running down Front Street which is the sort of main street for Old Town Temecula. At this point in the photo above we turn right heading up that hill to the Freeway on-ramp to head south and then turning east on Hwy 79 towards home back up in Anza. This whole time it's mega pouring still. We made it to the Aguanga Junction where the Temecula Creek runs along side of the Hwy 79, before the Hwy 371 turn off to Anza. It was now fairly dark at this time as traveling had been 30-40 miles per hour up the hill in pouring rain for which it was almost impossible to see clearly. As we past Temecula Creek in Aguanga just before the old Country Store, you could just make out that the road had been eaten away by the swollen floodplain to the right and that Cal-Trans workers had put up some barriers, but the road was still opened. It wasn't until the next day we had heard that less than a quarter mile section of that highway had been completely taken out. There is no available  photo of the flooded washout, but it happened just west of this little store.

This next photo looks west from the Hwy 371 & Hwy 79 junction west towards the store and the flooded washout took place over that hill in the distance. This road was closed for weeks until they made a temporary bypass. 

http://oldtowntemeculatours.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/and-109-years-later/

The above link is a great accurate description of that day!

The worst flooding though was the early 1980s. Roads and bridges everywhere were torn out on ALL major highways and folks were stranded for months and had to take detours which were burdensome. Lakeside California was one of the worst hit areas in 1980-1981 rainy season. Hwy 67 bridge wasn't gone, but was old and two upsteam dams were overflowing their spillways and water was raging underneath this classic Art Deco antique, something hardly anyone could remember happening before. Here are some photos from Mission Trails Park and other areas around San Diego area that should give one pause and take serious this coming El Nino weather forecasted event.

San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium 

For the record, these flood event photos up above are lame by comparison to what a bad El Nino Phenomena would do. These events are caused by regular mild winter storm spitting events. Want to know why they look so ominous ? Here's why such lame pitiful storms cause so much high water damage.

Most all of this mammoth housing and commercial build didn't exist in the early 1980s El Nino years. Yet these present  Mickey Mouse weather patterned Winter Storms can even now cause headaches for the infrastructure. What would this coming predicted El Nino Season do ? In historical times past most of these average southern California Storm rainfall totals would simply percolate and saturate deep into the natural landscape. All those Asphalt paved and Concrete slabbed Foundations are nothing more than potential runoff expressways. But there's even more to exacerbate the potential problem !!!

2003 Cedar Fire

(Image: Ramona Journal)

And the list is endless from this past decade and no amount of regrowth is going to hold back floods of a bad El Nino Event made worse by climate change. Those two Mega-Firestorms are a drop in the bucket from what you all know has happened this past 2000 decade over there and the fire season there now is just beginning and with a bang in the southwest.

Red Flag Warning Update as of 6/10/12

Even if the backcountry were still in pristine old growth chaparral or forest condition, such extreme weather events as we are experiencing globally which have been caused by human mismanagement of natural resources around the planet would still be a challenge and great risk this coming season in the event of an El Nino occurring today. The last couple of decades have been horrible as far as rainfall totals needs for the southwestern USA and that tends to relax some from any potential future disaster. Whether anyone takes any of these predictions seriously or scoffs at them, the facts show that you are at least on notice and it's just barely the calm before the storm. I certainly don't know everyone's individual circumstances or situation. Where ever you live you know the history of the risks living in your area. Take precautions and plan for potential disaster and emergency situations as if all of this were to really come true.

Be Warned!!!

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