Valley Water has declared an El Niño emergency, following last month’s statewide emergency proclamation, to accelerate storm readiness for the anticipated severe winter weather across Santa Clara County and coastal California.
The declaration enables Valley Water to take immediate actions to prepare for, prevent, or mitigate threats associated with the developing El Niño weather to the regional water supply and property owned or maintained by Valley Water.
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administratin’s Winter Outlook released last week predicted that the arrival of a powerful El Niño – the above normal temperatures of the Pacific Oean – in December and continuing through next February will likely result in warmer-than-average temperatures across the northern U.S., and wetter-than-average conditions across the southern U.S., from California to Florida, and along the Eastern Seaboard…