I live in Livermore, CA, in the East Bay area of Central California.  There is all this hype about El Nino, but we have never seen a consistent response where we live.  Sometimes it means drought.  Sometimes it means flooding rains.  Sometimes it means nothing at all.  Painting big pictures of the impact on climate doesn't do much good in managing our day-to-day lives, here on the edge of the subarctic rain path.