California Hasn't Seen An El Niño Like THIS...

📱 FREE WEATHERWISE RADAR APP: • iOS: https://apple.co/44wDDKH • Android: https://bit.ly/42RyZEu The strongest El Niño we've ever measured is sitting in the Pacific, and California feels it more than anywhere. In seven of the eight strongest El Niño winters, Los Angeles got more rain than normal. The one miss was 2015, when the storms went north. This one is running hotter right off South America than 1997 did. This is my whole winter forecast for California in one place: the rain, how much snow the mountains get from Tahoe to Big Bear, what it means for the hillsides that burned, and when the real storms usually show up. If I'm wrong about your mountain town, measure it and prove it: I'm grading this map in March. 0:00 Is this the El Niño that finally delivers? 0:48 Why El Niño aims the storms at California 1:19 What the big El Niños did 1:49 The 2015 miss 2:13 What's different this time 2:49 The odds 3:20 My call for California 3:53 Snow from Tahoe to Big Bear 4:38 Good news and bad news 5:24 When the storms start 5:52 Your town's number on yallsnow.com 6:05 The Y'all-O-Meter Your town's exact snow range: https://yallsnow.com Grab a Y'all-O-Meter for 15% off with the code SNOW15 at https://yallsnow.com Y'all-O-Meter $1,000 snow photo contest, official rules (no purchase necessary): https://ryanhallyall.com/yallometer-contest Subscribe to Ryan Hall Xtra: https://www.youtube.com/@RyanHallXtra?sub_confirmation=1 My forecasts and live storm coverage are on the main channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RyanHallYall Footage: inkknife_2000 (Mount San Bernardino completely covered in snow, Feb 10 2009), CC BY-SA 2.0 Grigory Heaton (the Eaton Fire burn scar on the hills above Altadena, Feb 11 2025), CC BY-SA 4.0 Public domain and CC0: Blake Everett; CSU/CIRA and NOAA (GOES imagery); Dave Gatley, FEMA Full footage credits and licenses: https://public.yallsoft.app/rhy/edit-kits/california-winter-2026/assets/credits.txt Data: NOAA and the National Weather Service (station records through the NOAA Regional Climate Centers, NWS storm reports), the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (winter outlook, 6 to 14 day outlook, El Niño weekly sea surface temperatures), the North American Multi-Model Ensemble, the California Department of Water Resources (reservoir storage), PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University. Website: https://ryanhallyall.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/ryanhallyall Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ryanhallyall X: https://twitter.com/ryanhallyall Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanhallyall/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanhallyall Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ryanhallyall Ryan Hall Xtra is my official second channel, run by me and my team at Ryan Hall, Y'all. Don't be scared, be prepared.