The polls have closed on the latest seasonal outlook for California, and the results are unanimous. All 51 forecasts of one of the world’s leading seasonal models call for a wetter-than-normal December through March in the San Francisco area, with the average forecast at about 26 inches of rain, nearly double the normal.
The forecasts, released Thursday by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, also anticipate a wetter than normal winter for cities up and down the state amid the extremely strong El Niño. They aren’t unanimous that every city will be above normal, but the trend line is clearly there — and they were unanimous for San Jose, Paso Robles, Santa Barbara and San Diego, in addition to San Francisco.
When all 51 forecasts land in the same place, it is considered a mark of unusually high confidence…