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Mt. Nusatsum

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

El Nino?

There are a lot of news articles surfacing in the  US, Japan, Peru and Australia about a developing El Nino condition.  They are not calling it with certainty and some of the El Ninos that develop far out into the southern Pacific don't always have consequences for North America, but the data seems to be trending towards an emerging El Nino.  As I recall for the Pacific BC Coast, past El Ninos can bring drier winters - some with very little snow and warm summers.  The bad part is El Ninos are almost always followed by La Nina's and La Nina's can be evil, with big rainstorms followed by cooler wetter deeper snow winters for us.  The last two years we experienced rare back to back La Nina's which if you've been reading the BellaCoolaBlog for awhile you will know the falls of 2010 and 2011 were memorable for all the wrong reasons around these parts.


The plant in the photo is the Rattle Snake Plantain (Goodyera oblongifolia), a lovely leafed plant of forests which is actually in the orchid family, but the flower spikes are not that spectacular, the leaves by far being the most attractive.  Grizzly

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for your blog. For somebody who spent time in the Valley in years past it is a well composed , articulate piece of net journalism that is greatly appreciated.

    Keep up the good work.

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  2. Hi Grizzly. Can you comment on the state of this summer's pink salmon run? This should be the return class from the pink salmon that spawned just prior to the great flood of 2010. At that time there were dire predictions that all the eggs had been washed out of their reds and lost. So, I'm wondering if that prediction proved correct or if nature found away.
    Thanks.

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