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It's official: This is the biggest El Niño on record, and a killer La Niña is coming

anewstart22
anewstart22 Posts: 885 Member
edited November 2024 in Social Groups
I think there might be some grandstanding in this article from Business Insider but I have been hearing a lot about the largest El Nino.

This starts it's notations of El Nino beginning November 09, 2015

businessinsider.com/biggest-el-nio-killer-la-nia-coming-2015-11


Here is an article regarding El Nino 2015 from the Weather Channel, El Nino is official for 2015 according to them.

weather.com/news/climate/news/el-nino-outlook-strong-possible-may2015

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  • tlspindor
    tlspindor Posts: 202 Member
    I say bring on the rain. It has helped some of us down here in Texas get out of the drought.
  • anewstart22
    anewstart22 Posts: 885 Member
    LOL, I say bring the rain too, it's the hurricanes I don't want, lol. I'm only 5 miles from the gulf coast. :smiley:
  • tlspindor
    tlspindor Posts: 202 Member
    Yes, by all means be careful down there.
  • sannferris
    sannferris Posts: 1,432 Member
    I will gladly share my rain with you both. We are having the wettest December in the history of Portland.
  • isyvanek
    isyvanek Posts: 1,039 Member
    This is turning out to be a wetter than usual December for quite some time for us also. YAY!

    My company installs rain gutters among other things and we are extremely busy. Everyone wants to get prepared for El Nino and even the new home buyers are taking the optional rain gutters instead of the usual "who needs gutters" attitude we've seen in the past. We are so busy we are booking 6 to 8 weeks out and people are getting cranky about it.
  • anewstart22
    anewstart22 Posts: 885 Member
    edited December 2015
    I sure hope they are putting that rain in barrels for later use, lol. We are getting plenty of rain here now, we went about 7 or 8 years in drought and it got pretty bad. The hill country was losing lakes and people were losing their lake homes because the wells dried up. I don't know how much of that has been restored yet but I know it's much better than it used to be. Hopefully everyone can get out of drought.
  • isyvanek
    isyvanek Posts: 1,039 Member
    Unfortunately not too many people are storing it.

    We have had lakes dry up (such as lake Hodges right up the freeway from us) and reservoirs severely reduced.
  • arobed53
    arobed53 Posts: 2,004 Member
    Most people don't have a place to store water that I know of. Very windy here today.
  • anewstart22
    anewstart22 Posts: 885 Member
    Wow, Lake Hodges dried up, Wow!
  • isyvanek
    isyvanek Posts: 1,039 Member
    Yep, Lake Hodges is totally gone.
  • tlspindor
    tlspindor Posts: 202 Member
    We put up gutters this year, plus a water catchment system. It's not very big but so far we've gotten 1377 gallons just since August, I still have one 275 gal. tote left to fill then I'm full. This will give me plenty of water for my trees and garden next year for when the rain doesn't come.

    Plus from what I hear on the weather channel we have had 65 inches of rain at the DFW airport. That is where they get the official total for up here by me.

    I track my rain totals at my house and so far we are at 56 or 57 inches, which is a record compared to 2007 when we got 50 inches of rain.

    Right now we are out of the drought and I pray that we stay out too.
  • arobed53
    arobed53 Posts: 2,004 Member
    Enjoy the gutters. How will you get the water from the totes to the garden?
  • isyvanek
    isyvanek Posts: 1,039 Member
    Brilliant Tammy! I wish we had some sort of system to catch the rain. We are supposed to have rain 4 days next week! Yay! I have the same question as Debora, how will you transport the water?
  • tlspindor
    tlspindor Posts: 202 Member
    arobed53 wrote: »
    Enjoy the gutters. How will you get the water from the totes to the garden?

    Well Ladies for the totes I am using just a water hose and using gravity other wise I fill up several 1 gal. jugs and carry it over to what needs watering. My husband did buy a water pump but he still has to plum it all together.

    My fruit trees are doing okay, with them being in the ground for just 1 year they haven't produced any fruit yet. I'm being told that it will take at least 2 years for the peach trees, 3 years for the plum tree and the same for the nectarine tree. Plus this year I put in a Fig tree and I will have a second one ready to go in next spring.

    My garden is doing just okay, this is my second year trying to grow corn but not very good at that for some reason. The yellow squash is doing okay and so are my tomatoes.

    I have also started to learn more about composting.

    Sorry it took so long to get back with an update.

    Isy - Did Lake Hodges ever fill back up?
  • isyvanek
    isyvanek Posts: 1,039 Member
    Interesting. Good use of resources Anew! Composting is also very good for many reasons.

    From what I can see of Lake Hodges from 15 it is still dry but I would assume it has some water in it to the west where the reservoir is.
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