06/21/2026
This fascinates me…especially the bit about us entering a “global cooling” 💃
Not all El Nino winters will look like this. We are in an intensifying Grand Solar Minimum and that will disrupt the normal El Nino pattern. A Grand Solar Minimum can further increase Southern California rainfall and bring GSM storms instead of El Nino storms. Or a Mix of Both.
We seen this before in 1884 AD and in other years.
Canonical El Ninos can actually set up that colder air over the Southwestern USA.
Typically, the El Nino strengthens the Pacific Jet Stream (aka Warm Subtropical Jet) and takes a Hawaii Track into Southern California bringing very high snow levels. Snow Levels can fluctuate and come down somewhat, but typically stay at 7000 feet or above, in some cases remain above 9000 feet. Just depends on how warm that El Nino storm is.
But there are instances where you do get the colder polar jet stream in an El Nino year as the Subtropical Jet is forced further south slightly and the polar jet takes its place and you can get snow levels down to 2000 feet or lower. We have seen snowfall levels in history reach coastal zones including Downtown Los Angeles and even in San Diego during some El Nino years.
Again, what is the source of the climatic driving? Because its not always the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). We have much stronger cycles that govern our weather and climate. Its like having a boss, your boss their own boss above them, and that boss has a boss above that. Well, the Gliessberg Minimum was above the 1883/1884 El Nino and it had Krakatoa's 1883 VEI 6 Eruption which was more powerful than the Mount Pinatubo Eruption of 1991.
Chain of Command...
#1 Boss Gliessberg Minimum of the Sun 1880-1914 (1975-1935)
#2 Boss Krakatoa's 1883 VEI 6 Eruption
#3 Strong Canonical El Nino
El Nino was not in charge during the 1883/1884 Storm Season as it was heavily influenced by the stronger moderate Gliessberg Minimum and powerful Krakatoa eruption and that resulted in unusually heavy rainfall and snowfall even for a Strong Canonical El Nino in Southern California with the jet stream through San Diego County.
My El Nino Winter prediction does not look like this, and its unusually snowy for quite a few areas with cold blasts for some. These images can be very misleading especially as we are entering are legit in a global cooling era right now which will deepen into the coldest weather anyone alive today has ever experienced. Snow will return to places like Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, and Phoenix in the years and decades ahead.
Lastly, you'll see variations to these kinds of maps. Everything is placed slightly different, while some are the same.
