here in southern california, i've heard a "strong" el niño is warm, so instead of the mountains getting snow, the snowpack they've accumulated (if any) gets rained out. it sucks if you snowboard! that means that we won't get a lot of snowpack to keep our streams flowing in the spring, we'd get flooding instead. i therefore don't think it would solve our drought. it would cause mass flooding instead of nice snowpack. what we do the snowdance for is a mild el niño, which brings extra rain, though not as much extra, it is colder, so it brings SNOW!
here in southern california, i've heard a "strong" el niño is warm, so instead of the mountains getting snow, the snowpack they've accumulated (if any) gets rained out. it sucks if you snowboard! that means that we won't get a lot of snowpack to keep our streams flowing in the spring, we'd get flooding instead. i therefore don't think it would solve our drought. it would cause mass flooding instead of nice snowpack. what we do the snowdance for is a mild el niño, which brings extra rain, though not as much extra, it is colder, so it brings SNOW!
TL;DR happy dance; sad dance