Dew drops on my window.
- Image by RodneyRamsey via Flickr
Have you noticed any “moisture flow” in Los Angeles today?
That’s what Fox News is calling this rainstorm that has already lasted 2 days!
Of course, this has all the weather people on the edge of their seat, but it’s not so much. As the LA Times (reluctantly) admits:
No major flooding or mudslides have occurred with the rainstorms hitting Southern California…
In February, a slow-moving rainstorm triggered severe flooding in La Cañada-Flintridge…
Oh, okay, we had to go back 11 months for drama. Yawn.
As a long-time resident here, I thought the weather men and women were exaggerating…so I downplayed the rain here.
Meteorologists helpfully bring up La Nina when LA gets any moisture. And as always, predictions for La Nina and/or El Nino are that we will get a lot more rain, or a lot less rain.
All I’m wondering is, is it okay for me to be a sarcastic weather girl in my news reports? And if I’m wrong about weather predictions, should I apologize, or ignore my mistake, like meteorologists do?!
- It’s raining in Los Angeles, CA (examiner.com) There’s a good cartoon of El Nino by Steve Greenberg at the link.
Donna Barstow
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2 Comments
Jessica
Um, that’s El Nino not La Nino. And usually meteorologists bring up El Nino when they’re predicting wet weather.
Donna Barstow
Oops, Spanish is not my native language. Corrected now.
But did you read the LA Times link? They predict EITHER more rain or more drought! Paper said the same thing. It’s easy to predict weather when you include all the options.