So, Scrapps, the weather service calls what you are getting the "rain response" and it seems to have something called "character".
El Nino likely to drag on for months, forecasters say
WASHINGTON (February 12, 1998 5:06 p.m. EST nando.net) -- There's little relief in sight for storm-battered California. The El Nino weather phenomena is expected to drag on through spring, government officials say.
"El Nino is still going strong and will for two more months," Commerce Secretary William M. Daley reported Thursday. "The severe weather in California and the Southeast unfortunately will continue."
Current conditions are expected to prevail for as long as three more months, said Ants Leetmaa, director of the department's Climate Prediction Center. Conditions should ease by summer, he added, but even as late as fall, some El Nino remnants could remain.
"We think that the character of the rain response in areas like Florida, Southern California or central California is going to be very much like it has been for the last month or two months," Leetmaa said.
"What you'll have is episodic events, there'll be periods where it dries out then again there'll be periods of very heavy storms like we've seen in the past."
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