Is China's pollution causing California's 500 year Drought

[FreakinDJ]

This is UC Berkley's imagery of China's pollution hitting the West Coast of the USA





and now here is the ridge of High Pressure that has been blocking California's normal storm pattern coming off the pacific

[1000words]

1. Probably Mongolians

They're always messing things up:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. All I can tell you is this is bad

Though per CHP we have a few sprinkles falling right now. The long range forecast had NO RAIN for the rest of the month, so HOPING this long range was wrong (though the high is still parked in the long range) and we get some measurable rain.

[longship]

3. Sounds like post hoc reasoning to me.

Which means, probably not.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

[madrchsod]

4. wind map of the pacific.

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-132.26,44.66,579

notice there`s no wind coming on shore.

another interesting thing is the first of this week the furthest alaska weather station reported -2 degrees . most of alaska was in the 20`s to 50`s. meanwhile the middle of wisconsin was reporting -30. throw in earlier this week upper sweden came within 1 degree of setting a all time low. the winters of 77-78 and 78-79 were worse than this winter.


remember california has had worse drought through the ages..

http://science.time.com/2014/01/23/hundred-years-of-dry-how-californias-drought-could-get-much-much-worse/

[sakabatou]

5. I don't think so

If I remember, there's some sort of pressure zone that's breaking up the clouds.