[Jim W N]

The next storm is expected to hit the Lake Tahoe area Thursday afternoon, bringing warmer and wetter conditions than past storms.

Hopefully not the dreaded Pineapple Express which in 1996-1997 devastated the Sierras melting tons of snow with ravaging rivers bringdown structures all the way down to the San Francisco Bay.

This happened when I used to walk at Menlo Park, CA along by the bay at my noontime lunch break. I was astonished to see boards and debris floating around that obviously came from destroyed structures. All the way from the Sierras. Wow.

[sissyjane]

I live at 4000 feet elevation in the Sierras. Our deck and roof are loaded with snow and we are expecting eight inches of rain. We can’t shovel it and can’t find anyone else to do it. Scary!

[Myrddin]

We had a heavy rain storm in San Diego that washed a mobile home 30 miles from the mountains down to the ocean. It happens occasionally. Ryan Maue has shown charts indicating a shift from La Nina to El Nino and a return of Pineapple Express style atmospheric rivers. If that forecast holds, there is going to be a lot of rain dumped on CA in the near future.

[Mariner]

It is the Pineapple Express.
Big one.

On top of huge snowfall.

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