Figure 2 – Jason-2 satellite thermographic image of the 2015 El Nino event. From NASA’a Jet Propulsion Laboratory and in the public domain.

California was made photographically famous by the f/64 group culminating, if I dare say so, in the glorious work of photographer Ansel Adams.  But in the present climate, I think that we need to admit that the photograph of Figure 1, a Jason-2 satellite thermographic image of the currently forming El Niño event for 2015, recently released by NASA’s Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is even more glorious for Californians. Scientists now believe that El Niño is too big to fail! With that comes the prediction of a wetter than normal winter, something that drought-ravished California desperately needs.