NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center projects\u00a0<\/a>a 97% chance of a very strong El Ni\u00f1o between November 2026 and January 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n“We’ve seen an increase in people calling because of El Ni\u00f1o. But normally, throughout the summer, it’s pretty steady. Then, whenever we get into rainy season, like a few years back, we had those atmospheric rivers. We had, I think, one weekend: 21 tarp calls. Which, that means it’s an emergency. There’s nothing we can do to fix it right then when it’s actually pouring down rain. We just have to cover it up. That’s not a good place to be in. We’d rather do the roof when the sun’s shining,” Seth Larson, CEO of Resilient Roofers, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Larson said that it can often be more economical to do roof work ahead of time versus waiting to see what happens.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“If there’s not a problem and the roof is in fairly good shape, maybe 10 to 15 years old, that would be a good course of action. But if there is a problem, and you’re just hoping for the best, that can actually be more expensive. Because now, not only do you have to deal with the roof, like you would’ve during the summer, but now you have to deal with the cleanup on the inside. There could be mold, water damage, things of that nature that add up really, really quickly,” Larson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If taking action now, he said people should take a look at the roof, gutters, drains and clear everything out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Larson also advises spending the next 90 days inspecting one’s property, such as hiring a licensed contractor to walk the roof and provide a written condition report. Then, the next steps would be to make repairs and build a plan if a leak should start.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finally, he advises that it’s important to document; take photos and videos of the roof, attic, ceiling and more, and have them on standby in case an insurance claim is ever necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Mayor Todd Gloria, City Council President Joe LaCava, Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera and emergency officials plan to hold a news conference Tuesday outlining the City’s steps to prepare ahead of the anticipated El Ni\u00f1o winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center projects a 97% chance of a very strong El Ni\u00f1o between November 2026 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-436011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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