SF News SF City Departments Bracing For El Niño Floods It's kind of hard to think about winter right now as the city is SWELTERING. But we must. We've gotten plenty of mixed messages when it comes to this coming "Godzilla El Niño"
SF News Day Around The Bay: Don't Worry About The Blob At least one Stanford climatologist is saying that the Pacific Ocean "blob" is not going to affect an El Nino pattern in the slightest, and will likely go away this winter anyway. [Bay
SF News Historic Confluence Of Three Category-4 Pacific Hurricanes Could Spell Trouble Adding to the evidence of this mega-powerful, 'Godzilla' El Niño season coming our way, there was a period between Saturday and early Sunday when, for the first time since we've been observing our
SF News El Niño Possibly Driving Sharks Crazy, Farther North Sea creatures have been abundant — and their behavior strange — along the shores of Northern California, leading some experts to speculate that a particularly strong El Niño could be the impetus. KRON4 reports in
SF News Video: How El Niño Works The will-we-or-won't-we game has begun with regard to the "Godzilla El Niño" taking shape off our coast, and this week we got the U.S. Climate Prediction Center’s monthly update which only
SF News Godzilla El Niño Plus The 'Blob' Could Mean Rain For Northern California, Or It Still Could Not Though chances remain fairly high that the strengthening El Niño will mean a lot of wetness (and possible flooding) for the Bay Area, there is a chance the majority of the rain will
SF News 'Godzilla El Niño' Now Being Called 'Strongest In Recorded History' Um, guys? This winter could be a disaster! But the skiing is probably going to be insane. A new piece in the Washington Post, and the new thermographic image above, are here to
SF News 'Godzilla El Niño' Now Predicted This Winter Back in April, meteorologists were hesitantly optimistic. But now as ocean temperatures in the Pacific are heading record highs with no signs of stopping, some weather people are getting downright bullish that this
SF News Warm Water 'Blob' In The Pacific May Be Fueling Drought Separate from the coming El Nino year, an ocean temperature anomaly has been lingering in the Pacific in the shape of a massive "blob" of unusually warm water, up to five degrees warmer
SF News Forecasters Promise El Niño Really Might Come Around For Real This Time, Really We all got burned last year after weather people got us all psyched up for a wet El Niño winter to alleviate some of the drought, and then it never came. (Well, it
SF News El Niño Finally Arrives; Will Not Save California, Rain-Wise Remember that "weak" El Niño that was supposed to develop this winter? Well, it's March, and it just got here. As predicted back in October, this season's ocean warming was not on track
SF News Biblical Rain Is Headed Our Way Wednesday Night Another significant deluge of rain, "the likes of which only hit[s] Northern California once every few years" is headed through town in the second half of this week, making me wonder again
SF News California On Track For Hottest Year On Record We all know it's been a warm, dry year. And if that surprise beach day a week ago, in November, weren't yet another clue, new data from the National Climatic Data Center shows
SF News This El Niño Is Coming In Weak Sorry, everyone. Way back in March we started talking about the likely event of an El Niño winter season as Pacific ocean temperatures were on the rise. At one point, climatologists were saying
SF News Forecasters Less Optimistic About El Niño This Winter Climate scientists are being less bullish this week about the possibility of winter bringing a severe El Niño rainy season, though it remains a possibility. Federal forecasts are now calling for a weak
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: What Are These Bizarre Jellyfish Things? Great big "blooms" of bizarre, beautiful, blue and purple creatures have been washing up on local beaches in recent days. These relatives of jellyfish that do not sting (but still may cause allergic
SF News The Coming El Niño Could Lead To Warmest Year On Record Climate scientists are all pretty well on board with the prediction that this coming winter is going to be a severe El Niño season. And for those who did not live in Northern
SF News California Drought Caused By Climate Change, Says Study A new, real-time study from Utah State University climate scientists suggests that climate change is to blame for the "dipole" situation we had this past winter, the one that caused the Polar Vortex
SF News Chances Now Higher That This Will Be A Severe El Niño Year Some early predictors a month ago are getting solidified, and a new report now says the chances of the upcoming winter bringing with it a potentially severe El Niño are 66%. A warming
SF News Brace: This Could Be Another El Niño Year We haven't had a ton of weather these past two winters here in Northern California, which has meant we haven't had much rain. But that all could change as meteorological experts have officially
SF News It's Going to Be a 'Weak' El Niño Year, But That May Mean Nothing Here we go again: Meterologists are predicting a "weak" El Niño this winter, for whatever that's worth. The National Weather Service is saying the area of the Pacific closest to the equator rose
SF News The Rain This Month Is Allegedly Unremarkable Has this not been the most dismal and chilly May you can remember in the Bay Area, like, ever? It is in SFist's opinion. But some meteorological nerd today tells us, via the
SF News Shipwreck'd At Ocean Beach Every now and then, when the sand moves, you can see the remnants of shipwrecks on the shore of Ocean Beach -- and yesterday, folks enjoying the warm weather at low tide caught
Arts & Entertainment Tahoe Gets Fresh Pow Pow As for how the season is looking, experts looked into their Magic 8 ball and after getting "Ask Again Later" several times, have deemed the upcoming season as being possibly "exceptional." This is
SF News <a href=http://gorillamask.net/videoelnino.shtml>El Nino Is Spanish For the Nino</A> El Nino is a weather pattern that occurs every so often, in which temperatures in parts of the Pacific warm up and change weather patterns. In California, it'll usually means more rain, the
