That sound you hear is the death rattle of El Niño, but he’s not going down without a fight.  Welcome rains across the state of Texas – and some rains not so welcome, now that many of the reservoirs are full – suggest that El Niño, the oceanic phenomenon that seems to drive a lot of North America’s weather patterns, is not done with us yet. Still, the climatologists at NOAA are fairly certain we’ll transition to a full-blown La Niña by fall 2016. What that portends is just… Read More →