Which of these tends to give the worst weather to your area?

[Jim Cantore]

This was approved

[cycloneye]

This poll is ok for all the members to participate as it has been allowed by the staff.

[Lindaloo]

I chose La Nina although neutral gave me a monster cane. La Nina we stay dry it seems.

[Jim Cantore]

we stay dry it seems

same here, happened in 1999 and is happening now despite La Ninas death

[ROCK]

neutral is my vote...

[AussieMark]

El Nino for me

we get early kicks to summers where it gets hot

i.e in the small one that kicked off in 2004 we reached 102F in October wich is like your APril.

we get bad fire seasons and we get dry and that leads to water restrictions

[wxmann_91]

What do you mean by worst?

El Nino gives flooding rains which though is destructive is the most weather I can look forward to here.

The "worst" weather (which in my definition, sunny) would be La Nina.

The worst weather (which in the standard definition, cataclysm) would be El Nino.

[Jim Cantore]

Standard def, I think houses falling off of cliffs is worse then a sunny day

[wxmann_91]

Standard def, I think houses falling off of cliffs is worse then a sunny day

Then El Nino.

[Jim Cantore]

its lose-lose

El nino, California Pays, La Nina, the east coast pays, Neutral, pretty much everyone gets slammed.

[Cookiely]

El Nino. The flooding in Tampa was truly terrible and many people lost their homes.

[Rod Hagen]

In Oz it depends on where you live to some extent. In NSW and Qld by and large El Nino does the damage. Droughts and bushfires reign in eastern Oz when El Nino is around. Droughts are much more worrying in Oz than rain for most people. La Nina gives people a chance to plant crops and refill the water tanks and dams.

In Southern Victoria the picture is much less clear. We don't get such clear differentiation. Sometimes drughts down here come with La Nina, sometimes with El Nino. Again, too little water is seen as a far worse problem than too much.

Cheers

Rod

[AussieMark]

In Oz it depends on where you live to some extent. In NSW and Qld by and large El Nino does the damage. Droughts and bushfires reign in eastern Oz when El Nino is around. Droughts are much more worrying in Oz than rain for most people. La Nina gives people a chance to plant crops and refill the water tanks and dams.

In Southern Victoria the picture is much less clear. We don't get such clear differentiation. Sometimes drughts down here come with La Nina, sometimes with El Nino. Again, too little water is seen as a far worse problem than too much.

Cheers

Rod

Yes EL Nino are worse on us.

I remember the el nino of 1997-98

we had days where we had upper 30's or even 40's

and that coupled with no rain

also can't forget the 1994 sydney fires

[southerngale]

I guess neutral since that's what it was when Rita hit here, unseasonably late. Not unheard of, but pretty late for this far west.

[CrazyC83]

El Nino gave me a record-breaking ice storm, followed by major flooding, then numerous severe weather outbreaks...all in 1998.

[timeflow]

El Nino in terms of storminess...

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/sls19paper10-1.html

[Audrey2Katrina]

I went with La Nina as well, although it was close between that and neutral. Someone else said it was a lose-lose scenario, and that's absolutely true. While one is better for one area and worse for others; the reverse is true for different areas... all depends on where you are located.

A2K

[boca]

I voted Neutral since 8 hurricanes have hit us during the neutral period. In winter months its El Nino due to the excessive rainfall we get in the SE.

[Rod Hagen]

Yes EL Nino are worse on us.

I remember the el nino of 1997-98

we had days where we had upper 30's or even 40's

and that coupled with no rain

also can't forget the 1994 sydney fires

In Victoria its less predictable.

The two worst fire seasons in Victoria last century were in 1939 and 1983. The 1983 "Ash Wednesday" fires, which killed 75 people in Victoria and SA and destroyed over 2000 homes, were the result of a full-on El Nino. (The Sydney fires in 94 that you mention were bad enough, but , by comparison, only resulted in the death of 3 people and the loss of 205 homes. I just happened to be in Melbourne for the 1983 ones and Sydney for the 94 ones. Both pretty hard to forget!)

The 1939 "Black Friday" fires, which killed 71 people in Victoria, burnt out 2 million hectares of land, and destroyed a thousand homes at a time when the population density was much lower than it was in 1983, though, occured during a La Nina. So did the 1997 Dandenong fires.

So I guess, at least down here, we can cop it both ways!

Cheers

Rod