Drought to end?

[Jeffrey Todd]

For all of you who have been suffering through drought like we have in Texas, there may be good news. The Climate Prediction Center anticipates the end of La Nina and the start of an neutral and El Nino cycle, which should mean the return of normal or above-normal rains and more more moderate temperatures. This depends, of course, on your geographical location.
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/us_impacts/ustp_impacts.shtml

[tecumseh]

well personally I am sick and tired of this predictable lack of rain. I mean, come on man, I pay the preacher hansomly and it rains on his house and not a drop here on mine. Now how can that be right?

I wait in much atticipation of the shift in this major weather pattern. One of the other trends suggest in the models of global warming is that rain pattern will shift southward. One model in particular that I peeked at a few years back suggested that portions of the midwest would be adversely impacted.

[David Stewart]

I'm right across the Red River to the North and a little East of you guys and I'm keeping my head down and my fingers crossed. I checked a couple of days ago and my hives have put up more surplus in the last two weeks than they did ALL spring/summer. Only surplus I got was a taste now and then right from the frame.....

David

[tecumseh]

darn the good luck david... are you hugging the red river? what do you suspect is the nectar source this late in the season?

the yards here that did catch the patchy rain did fine and those yards a modest distance from the river actually put on a little bit (and I mean little) during the late summer.

anyway good luck on the rain Jeffrey...

[marimus]

In Australia (particularly eastern Australia), El Niño events are associated with an increased probability of drier conditions.

Its already been dry. We have water restrictions where you can't water your garden, wash your car or a multitude of other things. Drier would be very bad.

Cran

[Beemaninsa]

My area still has seen no significant rain. Radio said worst drought in 50 years. Its too late for a fall flow. I hope its not too late to put a little growth on the brush for a spring flow, but some say its too late even for that.

[Ronnie Elliott]

Boy's don't be fretting so much about the rain, it will be comming soon enough, or Jesus will be desending down from heaven on a clowd. Either way it will be welcomed when it happens.

[RonS]

Well, I think Jesus has descended because something is going right. We have had a moderately steady rain since about 0900 and it may stay for a while. Rain seems to be moving west to east. Weatherman was right. Regardless, looks like I will be feeding most of the winter, depending on the temperature. Beemaninsa, see you at the meeting.

Ron

[magnet-man]

Where do you see that we are coming to the end of the La Nina cycle?

Drought forcast through November.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/season_drought.gif

Jeffrey are there many Buda images in Buda Texas. This is a real queston. I can just imagine the local burger joint having a picture of Buda next to the Buda Burgeron on the menu. My guess is the Buda Burger would be large size burger.

[ September 13, 2006, 08:26 PM: Message edited by: magnet-man ]

[Jeffrey Todd]

Here is the page that refers directly to the El Nino cycle that is supposed to be coming.
As our friend from Australia alluded to, El Nino means wetter conditions for some, drier conditions for others.
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/
Right now my bees are storing a VERY SMALL amount of nectar from God-only-knows where. All I see are cacti, cedars, cedar elms, live oaks, scorpions, and an occasional rattler.

[ September 12, 2006, 05:54 AM: Message edited by: Jeffrey Todd ]

[Billy Y.]

Saw a article on Drudge today about el nino forming in the south pacific. Being blamed for the mild hurricane season so far.

[george dilley]

well down here in deep south texas it has rained on and off the last 5 days with some our counts near an inch an hour so we are very wet with flood watches started.

[Jeffrey Todd]

Hey magnet-man,
Sorry about not getting back to you sooner. There are no images of Buddha here in Buda (pronounced "byew-dah" just like the first part of "beautiful") that I know of. Buda is an anglicized form of the Spanish "viuda" which means "widow" in English. Supposedly there were a couple of elderly widows who ran an inn during the early days of the formation of this place, and the name stuck and was given a phonetic English spelling.
Thanks for asking. I always think name origins are interesting.

[magnet-man]

Thanks

[merops_apiaster]

The English Buda is to the Spanish viuda like the Spanish Mambrú to the English Marlborough.
Where have we the ears? smile.gif

(In Spain Marlborough is remembered in popular culture in a children's song: "Mambrú se fue a la guerra, mire usted, mire usted, qué pena..." )

[Jeffrey Todd]

And here in Texas the local immigrants from Mexico and Central and South America use words like "lunche" (for lunch) or "troca" (for truck). They don't have those in Spain, do they?
Rain is supposed to be coming this weekend! Go El Nino! (sorry about those of you who have more drought with "the boy" . . .)

[merops_apiaster]

Not in Spain, but in Mexico they are receiving a bath of English words.

If you say "lunche" in Spain we can imagine a speedboat (lancha), and lancha is a Malasyan word, and its meaning is rapid, agile.
So, you can see that the World is alive.

[magnet-man]

Well I like girls but La Nina wasn't very nice to me. When I took Spanish the masculine and feminine were always confusing. I guess if you grow up with a language it is easy. smile.gif

[merops_apiaster]

The masculine and femenine are so confusing that in Spain, finally, are allowed getting married man/man, woman/woman, and Viva la Pepa!

[Beemaninsa]

If Buda sits on EL Nino while eating his lunche, will I get some more friggin rain? We had a tease of rain, sure could use another couple of feet.

[Hobie]

Wish we could send you some from up here. I'm sick of being soggy, there's mold on everything, and the plant blooms get beaten off before the bees get out to them.

I could now start on my theory of weather trends heading toward either extreme and nothing moderate, but I won't.

[Jeffrey Todd]

Buddha sitting on El Nino while eating his lunche . . . sounds kinda . . . Erie, right, Hobie?
I thought San Antone got more rain the other day . . . sorry about that Beemaninsa. I believe it will be coming though.

[merops_apiaster]

I have been reading about drouht times or cycles in Europe, and probably El Niño, La Niña and "la madre que los parió" has been sending his "farts" to Europe before America was discovered.
Wheather is similar since 2000 years ago, before I don´t know. Only Greenland has suffered a miniglaciation during the XV century. It was a warm territory where there was a colony of Danish growers, and actually is a piece of ice.

There is a Spanish proverb that says:
"When don´t rain, it seems that will never rain, when it is raining, it seems that will neveer stop"
(Cuando no llueve parece que nunca va a llover, cuando llueve, parece que nunca va a escampar)