We often hear how the climate is changing everywhere, like in California.
Listening to the media we get the impression that the Golden State is drying out and risks burning up before heavy rains hit.
Others claim the state is facing “weather whiplash” because climate change will make the weather more extreme and volatile.
Today we take a look at the precipitation data of 7 stations spread across the state to see what changes have been happening.
Used here are the data from the Japan Meteorology Agency (JMA) that cover the last 33 years.
Data: JMA.
As we can see, there has been no trend over the past 30 years. Variability also appears unchanged.
California has always been a state characterized by alternating periods of drought and rainfall influenced by oceanic cycles like ENSO. The data show everything is within the normal range.
The real trend is the massive increase in media climate ambulance chasing where every anomaly gets hyped into something much more than it really is.
By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin
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Don’t ever expect this to make the front page headlines of any liberal California Birdcage Liner or Fish Wrap nothing much from the L.A.Times,San Francisco Chronical or Sacramento Bee this is the truth they reject in the M.S. Media
In early 2014 I predicted that rains would return to average or above average in Northern California and further up the coast towards Canada. This was at the time when the alarmists were stating that the California drought would continue on into the future. I also made my greatest prediction at that time that the winter of 2016/17 would be a heavy wet winter. All of that came to pass, and continues as conditions for the start of a cool/wet pattern had set in years earlier, and will last into the mid 2030s before the next warm trend returns. Here was part of what I said, and then in another comment somewhere on Disqus is the rain prediction, … https://wattsupwiththat.com/…/noaa-issues-spring…/
We’ve been told over and over to ignore weather, pay attention to longer periods, ie climate. California’s weather has been making headlines, but its climate has remained within historical norms. Cali has the wherewithal to fight fires and allocate water. The enviro’s got in the way.