We don't give a damn how they do it OUTSIDE.

Love this. You can get pretty good photos through windows. Sometimes I
Stop to snap a pic and sometimes I just take it while
Driving.

This one is pretty. 😊

That part of the road is quite familiar to me. The Matanuska River is off to the right, and around the corner, the road embankment will be the river's bank. There are a couple holes out there that will eat a canoe or suck a kayaker right out of their boat.
 
La Nina is forecast for this coming winter.


Be cautious about this because meteorology/climatology's forecasting abilities where ENSO is concerned are notoriously poor. Having said that, this year's active hurricane season is evidence of the absence of the wind shear conditions that have helped to suppress Atlantic hurricanes in the last twelve years.


NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center ENSO page:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/tools/briefing/



EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO)
DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION
issued by
CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER/NCEP/NWS
and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society
14 September 2017


ENSO Alert System Status: La Niña Watch


Synopsis: There is an increasing chance (~55-60%) of La Niña during the Northern Hemisphere fall and winter 2017-18.

Over the last month, equatorial sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were near-to-below average across the central and eastern Pacific Ocean [Fig. 1]. ENSO-neutral conditions were apparent in the weekly fluctuation of Niño-3.4 SST index values between -0.1°C and -0.6°C [Fig. 2]. While temperature anomalies were variable at the surface, they became increasingly negative in the sub-surface ocean [Fig. 3], due to the shoaling of the thermocline across the east-central and eastern Pacific [Fig. 4]. Though remaining mostly north of the equator, convection was suppressed over the western and central Pacific Ocean and slightly enhanced near Indonesia [Fig. 5]. The low-level trade winds were stronger than average over a small region of the far western tropical Pacific Ocean, and upper-level winds were anomalously easterly over a small area of the east-central Pacific. Overall, the ocean and atmosphere system remains consistent with ENSO-neutral...




 
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