Not El Nino nor yet La Nina: meet La Nada!

by | Jun 24, 2011 | Journal | 14 comments

The weather has hit a giant ‘wallow’, where nothing is happening, and the usual culprits, aka, the jet stream et al, have run scampering off.

 

14 Comments

  2. ToddRM
    ToddRM on June 24, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    CJ did you hear the news about J K Rowling? She is following your lead and created her own website and is selling her eBooks herself. She was lucky/smart enough to retain her digital rights. There is a lot of turmoil in the industry of what this will mean of course. Could tip the scales back toward the authors a bit. I found a good site here that talks about it. http://www.thepassivevoice.com/

  3. zette
    zette on June 24, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    Interesting weather stuff. I’m just tired of worrying about flooding. So I’ve stopped. It’s like the last thing I think about now, as long ad the levees hold out.

  4. chondrite
    chondrite on June 24, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    I’m hoping that for the next couple of weeks (at least) the weather remains stable so the Space Shuttle can launch without incident! I have a vested interest; I was fortunate enough to get tickets to see the launch from Kennedy Space Center.

    • smartcat
      smartcat on June 24, 2011 at 7:57 pm

      TERRIBLE! I hear that evacuations are continuing. Hope all goes well for you.

  6. 82Eridani
    82Eridani on June 24, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    Thanks for the link, Zette. Weekend plan to go home to Lincoln from KC is cancelled due to I29 flooding. Alternate route through Kansas not advised, per my dad, as everyone is trying to find a way around the water, and traffic is bumper to bumper. And more dam releases and rain coming. *pouty face*

    • zette
      zette on June 25, 2011 at 12:19 am

      This flooding will continue until September. It will be a long time before the roads are ready for traffic again, I suspect. This is going to do a lot of damage.

      I suspect Highway 77 up to Lincoln is going to be heavily traveled right now. 75 is too close to the river still, I think, and might not be a good route. 81 up to York and then east on I80 would be the best bet, and I80 isn’t going to be any worse than usual. The farther west you can go to hight I80 I would think the less of the I29 traffic you would get. I would think a lot of North/South traffic would be shifting over to I25 if they can.

      But yeah, it’s a real mess on all levels. The towns all along the Missouri are going to suffer for this for quite a while.

  7. BlueCatShip
    BlueCatShip on June 25, 2011 at 8:03 am

    We seem to have finally got out from under the high pressure bubble that had stagnated over us for weeks. Perhaps that’s what’s affecting your weather right now. But your position would tend to resolve stagnant weather pockets. Here’s hoping you’ll get better weather soon.

  8. chondrite
    chondrite on June 25, 2011 at 11:51 am

    Personal ambitions aside, I hope that everyone in the afflicted areas along the Mississippi/Missouri Basin stays high and dry until the flooding is over!

  9. Xheralt
    Xheralt on June 26, 2011 at 6:51 am

    And now, I’m contemplating a filk of “La Bamba” about “La Nada”…

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