The National Integrated Drought Information System, in partnership with NOAA’s Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC), the California Nevada Applications Program (CNAP, a NOAA Regional Integrated Science Applications team), the Desert Research Institute (DRI), and the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), hosted the “Integrating Drought Science and Information into Wildfire Management Workshop” in Boise, Idaho on 21-22 October 2015. Seventeen federal, state, NGO, and academic entities attended the workshop.
Full Title: Causes of the 2013-2014 California Drought: An unfortunate series of weather, ocean-forced variability and/or climate change. Presented at the California Drought Forum May 15-16, 2014.
The current El Niño event is very strong, and is expected to affect weather around the globe, and in Colorado, through next spring. The impacts of El Niño are more complex over Colorado than other parts of the West. Strong El Niño conditions improve the odds for wetter-than-normal conditions in most parts of Colorado, especially in fall and spring. However, strong El Niño conditions also tend to bring dry mid-winters to our North-Central mountains.
Shows past El Niño conditions, effects on snowpack and runoff.
Dry Times Volume 5 Issue 2
Prior to becoming a bi-weekly email newsletter, “Dry Times,” the NIDIS newsletter, appeared twice a year in the spring and fall.
El Nino Impacts and Outlook – Eastern Region, October 2015.
Typical El Niño winter weather pattern, potential impacts, winter temperature and precipitation outlook, past El Niños.
Meeting agenda
Meeting agenda
Briefing slides from September 22, 2015. ACF NIDIS RDEWS.
