El Niño?
Rumors of a wet winter are not just rumors anymore.
Students returned from winter break to a series of wet and windy days in the Ojai, something that many have not seen in the long years of recent drought. With the constant predictions by meteorologists and climatologists that California should expect a strong El Niño year, hope continues to grow as we move into the prime precipitation months. El Niño is a term used to describe a wetter weather pattern associated with warmer ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
The series of storms that rolled through campus late last week brought a much needed ~3.5 inches of rain—including an impressive 0.31 inches of rain in a 15-minute downpour on Wednesday morning. According to our resident weather-watcher, Dr. Vyhnal, "Warmest sea surface temperature deviations ever recorded (El Niño) in the eastern Pacific suggest more is coming..."
Let it rain!
The series of storms that rolled through campus late last week brought a much needed ~3.5 inches of rain—including an impressive 0.31 inches of rain in a 15-minute downpour on Wednesday morning. According to our resident weather-watcher, Dr. Vyhnal, "Warmest sea surface temperature deviations ever recorded (El Niño) in the eastern Pacific suggest more is coming..."
Let it rain!
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