"Brave" enough to poke its head out for all to see
(and obviously NOT sticking to his/her/its word, "never coming here again")
'To Opus, or not to Opus, that is the question'
Posted on 03/11/2023 8:32:45 PM PST by upchuck
A second atmospheric river is on its way to California, just as the state contends with a levee breach, evacuations and other damage from this week's winter storm.
The next atmospheric river — a long, narrow band of moisture drawn from the tropics — is forecast for Monday, and could be more powerful than the last.
California has been inundated by the latest front. In Oroville, north of Sacramento, a swift water rescue team helped two people stranded on an island in the Feather River get to safety. In the Central Coast, river flooding in Atascadero and Paso Robles was widely feared.
Residents of parts of Monterey County woke up to urgent flood warnings and orders to move out after a levee was breached around midnight by the rain-swollen waters of the Pajaro River, county officials said.
California National Guard troops and Monterey County sheriff's and fire first responders helped residents in flooded neighborhoods evacuate to higher ground Saturday.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
The term was originally coined by researchers at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1990’s
to describe the narrowness of the moisture plumes.
Indeed. Why, when “Pineapple Express” was already in use, and a hell of a lot more fun?
Atmospheric river. Very scary.
Interesting
I prefer Atmospheric avalanche, or atmospheric apocalypse...Maybe atmospheric attack!
I was hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains today and the Adobe Creek that starts on Black Mountain was really roaring.
This next storm has a high wind warning on Tues & Weds, too.
Your efforts here are noble but I have to wonder if you also play chess with pigeons? :)
I like to punch the moron who came up with the retarded term, “atmospheric river”. Geez.
Media trying to change implication of what used to be called “sequence of heavy rainstorms”....anything for a catchy headline. Most of media “suckophants” need to be put out to pasture and never heard of again.
Forty days and forty nights?
De ja vu all over again.
No matter what you call it...
The phenomenon is a common event.
The western states rely on them for water.
Otherwise it would all be a desert.
...a storm by any other name...
...will still cause the rivers to rise...
(apologies to Shakespeare)
after reviewing the comments, again and again over years, and other sites, what strikes me more than anything is the bitterness people have toward their fellow citizens, regardless of party affiliations. a lot of unhappy people wishing the worst for others. not to mention the often complete ignorance about a situation, but they post none-the-less. now I understand how the vikings could get off a boat pretty much anywhere, and slash away. it’s really sick. i’m look forward to moving far away, where people know how to live.
I prefer the term “enema hose” over all others because it washes sh!t into the sea.
Apparently God is conservative and PO’d.
All of california is now under epa control with the navigable waters.
YUP
If the Pajaro overflows it will devastate Mexico’s native population....
(Was stationed near there many moons ago.)
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