Weather Blog

Despite a cool La Niña shaping global weather, here in North America the weather has been amazingly warm.  Winter weather sulked in the West and refused to move east. Indeed, the weather got so strange that on Christmas there was more snow in El Paso, Texas, on the Mexican border, than in Toronto, Canada!

It has been very weird weather for a La Niña.

Hurricane force winds slammed the coast! On December 2, fierce winds toppled trees, ripped up power lines and smashed through cities. A new tropical storm?  No.  Welcome to sunny California and the Santa Ana winds.

In the East Coast, the Atlantic Hurricane season just ended. People could breathe a sigh of relief. On the West Coast, however, the windy season is just reaching its peak. These winds are hot, dry, blasts from the mountains, not the flooding storms of the tropics.

It’s time for some pretty weather. With the drought in Texas, last week’s Halloween Nor’easter, and a tornado in Oklahoma, the weather has been downright nasty. It’s time for a change.

I am fascinated by the weather – it is my hobby, my job and my passion. I love to save money, especially in the current economy.

Here’s the news – La Niña, that cool pool of water in the Tropical Pacific, is back.

When we are lucky enough that a hurricane doesn’t hit us, we seldom ask where it went. We are usually just grateful that it missed us.