by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/22/2025 11:02 AM
Who or what the hell canceled winter here so far this year?
Nothing speaks better to the primitives of this planet than your ridiculous religions
Nothing speaks better about your primitive superstitions of your religions than the weather above your monkey forehead.
A topic I often review is the improbability of certain weather events around me
Is human technology capable of causing the atmospheric river the USA west-coast is experiencing?
Is this new weapon's testing? A weapon to strategically alter a foreign region's climate?
Without my original-work, I would simply dismiss it as natural variability and that is still hands down the most likely cause.
This planet Earth did not become overnight capable of supporting complex life
Earth has been around for 5 billion years - the hard-working capable-of-independent-thought scientist *experts* tell us - so there has been plenty of time for this planet to get it right.
Weather and climate is about balance.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/18/2026 4:44 PM
Google: how much snowfall for spokane 2025 to 2026
Spokane recorded a total of 24.8 inches of snow during the 2025–2026 winter season at Spokane International Airport, according to Weather Totals.
Season Breakdown (2025–2026)
Total Snowfall: 24.8 inches
Normal Average (1991–2020): 45.4 inches
Difference from Normal: 20.6 inches below normal (about 45% below average)
Measurable Snow Days: 18 days (with 0.1 inch or more)
Largest Single Snowfall: 8.2 inches on March 13, 2026
Historical Ranking: Ranks as the 99th snowiest season out of 125 complete record-keeping years since 1900.
https://inwweather.com/weather
IMDb
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Quotes
Jack Hall: Professor, it's time you got out of there.
Terry Rapson: I'm afraid that time has come and gone
https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather-news/articles/dramatic-el-ni-o-effect-100319118.html
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USA TODAY
A dramatic El Niño effect is headed for the West Coast
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Sun, October 18, 2026 at 3:03 AM PDT 5 min read
One of El Niño's most dramatic effects is waiting in the wings and could soon cause chaos along the West Coast, especially in California, forecasters warned.
A historic El Niño is expected to up the intensity of atmospheric rivers – long corridors of water vapor in the atmosphere that can transport tremendous amounts of moisture and produce heavy rain or snow when they reach land.
"A stronger El Niño brings stronger atmospheric rivers," Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, told USA TODAY. "There aren't necessarily more of them, but atmospheric rivers are more intense during a strong El Niño like this one."
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In addition, strong El Niños also increase the frequency of non-atmospheric river storms in California, he said.
Tropical Storm Rachel leaves flooding, damage across California
Tropical Storm Rachel left flooding, coastal damage and partially submerged homes across Southern California after pounding the region with heavy surf and rain. The storm's remnants are expected to continue bringing flash flood risks, gusty winds and rough coastal conditions.
In an aerial view, Pacific Ocean waves wash into damaged homes amid high surf generated by Tropical Storm Rachel on Oct. 11, 2026 in Long Beach, California. California was under its second-ever tropical storm watch, with coastal flood warnings in effect from Los Angeles to San Diego. An emerging El Niño and oceanic Kelvin wave moving up the coastline have compounded conditions in the region. (Mario Tama, Getty Images)
"Amid an El Niño that will become the strongest, and also easternmost-centered, event on record (if it isn't already), this year's tilt in the odds toward wet and stormy conditions in California will be profoundly unsubtle," Swain wrote this week on his blog Weather West.
What are atmospheric rivers?
Often in the winter, you'll hear that "atmospheric rivers" are causing big weather problems along the West Coast. But what are they?
Made visible by clouds, these ribbons of water vapor extend thousands of miles from the tropics to the western U.S. At 250 to 375 miles wide, they provide the fuel for massive rain and snowstorms that can cause flooding along the West Coast.
In general, atmospheric rivers pick up water vapor from the warm, moist air of tropical regions and then drop the water over land in cooler regions as rain or snow.
These "rivers in the sky" are responsible for up to 65% of the western USA's extreme rain and snow events, a 2017 study said. And on average, up to 50% of the annual precipitation on the West Coast occurs in just a few atmospheric river events.
Some atmospheric rivers can stretch as far as 5,000 miles, all the way from Asia.
Though beneficial for water supplies, such events can wreak havoc on travel, bring deadly mudslides and cause catastrophic damage to life and property, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
In an aerial view, Pacific Ocean waves wash into damaged homes amid high surf generated by Tropical Storm Rachel on Oct. 11, 2026 in Long Beach, California. California was under its second-ever tropical storm watch, with coastal flood warnings in effect from Los Angeles to San Diego. An emerging El Niño and oceanic Kelvin wave moving up the coastline have compounded conditions in the region.
When will the atmospheric rivers begin?
"It's impossible to predict, but I'll be surprised if we see anything in October," Swain said.
AccuWeather's Alex DaSilva told USA TODAY that "we can see the first one as early as mid-November. The time of year when they will be the most frequent will be in January and February."
Has El Niño already brought extreme weather to the West?
Even before the "atmospheric river" season begins in a few weeks, remnants from an eastern Pacific hurricane (Rachel) already brought flooding to Southern California and the Southwest earlier this month.
In California, several days of high tides, coastal surge and winds battered and damaged homes along the Long Beach Peninsula and flooded Newport Beach's Balboa Peninsula, AccuWeather reports.
Elsewhere, heavy rainfall caused flash flooding and closed dozens of roads from San Diego County through the Coachella and Imperial valleys to Kingman and southern Utah. Record rainfall overwhelmed desert land in Las Vegas, which recorded its wettest October day, leading to dozens of water rescues.
Rachel can partially be attributed to El Niño, DaSilva told USA TODAY via e-mail: "El Niños typically bring less wind shear (hostile winds) across the Pacific basin, so there was less wind shear that the storm had to contend with. Less wind shear overall allowed the storm to survive longer than if the environment was more hostile.
"Sea-surface temperatures off of California were also well above average. This isn't always the case in El Niño years, but this year it was very much the case," DaSilva said.
Hurricane season still a worry
Experts continue to warn that intensifying El Niño conditions will continue to produce tropical activity in the Pacific and drive rain and potentially more storms into the West Coast.
"The Pacific is expected to remain active for the rest of the hurricane season and could send organized storms and moisture into the coastline," said DaSilva. "As we move into the winter months, powerful atmospheric rivers become a threat, and we're forecasting a wet and even snowy winter across the area."
Does fall weather predict winter weather?
Apparently, no: There remains "little physical or statistical connection between autumn (Sept.-Nov.) precipitation and even an extremely strong El Niño event," according to Swain, writing in Weather West: "Do not be surprised if October, and even November, are fairly unremarkable with respect to storm activity in California and the Southwest; it could be wet, it could be dry, and right now there's just not much signal either way.
"But what happens this autumn has no bearing whatsoever on what is increasingly likely to occur this coming winter."
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:50 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 10/18/2026
