Long-term weather forecasting gets complicated The future may be uncertain, but the past was clearly visible at Thursday evening’s Mountain Disaster Preparedness meeting. Alex Tardy, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s San Diego office, described several recent weather events, such as the drought, the summer and winter temperatures, and rainfall, with superlatives —…

With all the warnings that the approaching El Niño weather pattern and its accompanying rains will be greater than the 1997-98 rainfall, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors has already adopted a proclamation of local emergency. Emergency Management Department Director Kim Saruwatari made the unusual request. In her memorandum to the board, she said El…

The Wolf Fire, which began on Sunday June 29, had grown to 2,414 acres by Tuesday evening, according to CalFire’s website, and was 40% contained. The evacuation orders and warnings remained much as on Sunday, with two zones in Banning, Twin Pines, and the north part of Poppet Flats under evacuation orders. No structures were…