Monday, January 10, 2011

La Niña Setting Records/ Astonishing Floods!

Wow, look at this! Mt. Glorious received 262 mm of rain in the last 24 hours! That's more than 10 inches of rain! In 24 hours! That's more rain than Albuquerque gets in a year, compressed into 24 hours! And all that water rushes immediately downhill too, where it causes even more problems!

Wow! The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is rarely this high!
The monthly SOI for December was +27, which is the highest December SOI value on record and the highest value for any month since November 1973. The 5-month running mean (centred on October) was +21.

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