La Nina Returns !?!

Check this out - doesn't sound good for us'ns in the 4-corners region
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060202/sc_nm/weather_lanina_dc

seen anything else. I mean well, it is NOAA [filtered thru Yahoo]
~ Blooms

Here's NOAAs own site:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2572.htm

Uh-oh.

"Typically, La Niña events favor increased Atlantic hurricane activity" NOAA

(sigh)
Pati

Means my corner of the US gets less than the darn little that we've had over the past ten yrs. Southwest and four corners area forget moisture.

But, but, i-its a desert.

what wasn't is gonna be
high desert has sage, pinyon, juniper, rabbit brush, not to mention grasses and smaller shrublets...
they figure over the last drought years [think they actually counted 7yrs] we have lost as much as 70% of the sage and juniper and pinyon... in that they doubt it will recover even if we have a "normal year" of rainfall.

I will try to find source on that. ~Blooms

Plants have been responding to climate changes for eons. Wether or not this one is man-made or not, we don't really "know" yet.

Even I could have told them that it was La Nina year. It's been as dry as a bone.

Took them a while to figure this one out didn't it :)? Not a drop here since July, and yes, it is a desert but abnormally dry even for here.

Here, too!