New atmospheric river storm brings heavy rain to California
Source: AP
an hour ago
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A new atmospheric river brought heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds to California on Friday, raising the threat of flooding and disrupting travel.
Flood advisories or warnings were issued by the National Weather Service for areas around the San Francisco Bay, the central coast and the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. Southern California saw generally lighter rain.
The atmospheric river, known as a Pineapple Express because it brought warm subtropical moisture across the Pacific from near Hawaii, was melting lower parts of the huge snowpack built in Californias mountains by nine atmospheric rivers early in the winter and later storms fueled by a blast of arctic air.
The snowpack at high elevations is so massive it was expected to be able to absorb the rain, but snowmelt was expected at elevations below 4,000 feet (1,219 meters), forecasters said.
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Hekate
(90,517 posts)Auggie
(31,130 posts)North of San Francisco, Coombsville AVA, Napa Valley. I'm sure the Mayacamas mountain range received a ton more.
Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)are just new names for weather events. The last one downed a bunch of huge trees we have and took down all the power lines. Then I just read about 90% of Antarctic ice disappearing in the last few years??
2naSalit
(86,307 posts)To some degree that it may be they know more people have access to satellite imagery.
These terms fit if you can see the pictures.
https://www.aviationweather.gov/satellite/intl?region=i
Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)2naSalit
(86,307 posts)On the radio this morning but I don't hear much about coastal weather because I'm pretty far inland. I don't even give the local forecasters much of my time, maybe for spot checks, I just do my own weather website sweep every morning, I look at the whole global situation every morning, but that's just me and I know I'm not normal or average.
As for NOAA and NWS, I rely on them for the images and analysis whether I come up with my own idea of what could happen. I'm no meteorologist either but I've spent a lot of years out in the weather so I pay attention to it, past, present and future.
Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)them at a local open house they had and they are pretty much pure science. I've been impressed as to how much better forecasting has been, but I think climate change/ global warming is throwing lots of curve balls all over the world.