How Can El Nino End California's Drought

There are many things going around saying that El Nino could end California’s drought. What El Nino is a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east central equatorial pacific. What El Nino could bring to California is much needed rain to fill up reservoirs, rivers and give plants a much needed drink of water. A lot of people are getting really excited because El Nino is coming to California and end the 4 year long drought. But meteorologists are saying that there is a 50/50 chance of El Nino to come and bring rain. Researchers are predicting more rain for southern california but less rain and snow in the northern part of the state. The timing and ferocity of the storms play a huge role because heavy fast moving storms can lead to high levels of runoff or snowmelt …show more content…
It’s very clear that the drought is a huge challenge and may exist later in the future. Some ways El Nino may fall to end California’s drought is. “It’s very unlikey that things will develop exactly as were hoping for” said Jay Lund, director of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. First of all really big storm’s could develop and mostly impact. Southern California and miss Northern California. For example in July San Diego and Los Angeles broke records for wettest July ever and to set another example a bridge was destroyed by a flash flood in palm Springs and in San Francisco it was sunny all day. This is a really big problem because since the state’s most important reservoirs are in the North. Another problem is if El Nino arrives they may be too warm and the Snowpack would not be able build up. “We want the snowpack for sure” said California’s state hydrologist Maurice Roos. Another worrying thing is nobody really knows what will happen if El Nino storms hit the “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge”. This ridge is the mass of thick high pressure off the west coast that hasn’t let any storms come through and provide the water we really