I remember getting 7.5 inches in one hour in Vicksburg. California has no freaking clue about weather....Our 300 ft trees on the coast protect us.
When you get enough rain to produce trees like this get back to us:
Posted on 12/17/2010 7:42:32 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
STRONG PACIFIC STORM SYSTEMS WILL BRING HIGH RAIN AMOUNTS TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THROUGH AT LEAST WEDNESDAY...
MOIST WEST TO SOUTHWEST FLOW ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN WILL SEND A GREAT AMOUNT OF SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR MOST OF THE COMING WEEK. A SERIES OF WAVES WILL IMPACT THE REGION AND PERIODS OF SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED.
FOR THIS WEEKEND...THE FOCUS OF THIS MOISTURE WILL BE FROM CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TO THE LOS ANGELES AREA...SO AREAS FARTHER SOUTH TOWARD SAN DIEGO WILL BE ON THE EDGE OF THE HEAVIEST RAIN AND WILL NOT GET QUITE AS MUCH. IN ADDITION...LOW LEVEL WINDS FROM THE SOUTHWEST WILL PRODUCE MUCH HIGHER RAINFALL IN THE MOUNTAINS THAN IN THE LOWLANDS.
THE FIRST WAVE WILL IMPACT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TONIGHT AND SATURDAY AND BRING STEADY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN. A SECOND WAVE WILL ARRIVE SUNDAY AND BRING SOMEWHAT HEAVIER RAINFALL...THOUGH STILL A STEADY RAIN. THE RAIN WILL BECOME LIGHTER BY MONDAY.
TOTAL RAINFALL ESTIMATES FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT ARE AS FOLLOWS:
SAN DIEGO COUNTY COAST 1.00 TO 1.50 INCHES SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS 1.50 TO 2.00 INCHES ORANGE COUNTY COAST 1.50 TO 2.50 INCHES INLAND EMPIRE 1.25 TO 3.00 INCHES (HIGHEST NORTH) SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS 2.00 TO 5.00 INCHES RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS 2.50 TO 5.00 INCHES SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS 3.00 TO 6.00 INCHES SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MTNS 4.00 TO 8.00 INCHES
NOTE THAT MOUNTAIN TOTALS WILL BE HIGHLY VARIABLE. FOR THE DESERTS...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS AROUND ONE-HALF INCH COACHELLA VALLEY LESS THAN ONE INCH APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS AROUND ONE INCH
HEAVY RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED...BUT THEY WILL BE DUE TO LONG DURATIONS AND NOT DUE TO HEAVY INTENSITIES. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT WILL BE FAIRLY LOW OVER THE WEEKEND. HOWEVER...SOME LOW LYING SPOTS...ESPECIALLY ALONG STREETS...COULD HAVE MINOR FLOODING...ESPECIALLY SUNDAY. STREAMS AND WASHES WHICH MIGHT NORMALLY BE DRY COULD HAVE WATER FLOWING THROUGH THEM THIS WEEKEND.
SNOW LEVELS WILL BE QUITE HIGH THROUGH MONDAY. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL REMAIN ABOVE 8000 FEET...CONFINED TO THE HIGHEST PEAKS OF SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES.
BREEZY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE DURING THE WEEKEND WITH THE MOUNTAIN WIND SPEEDS AS HIGH AS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS TO 50 MPH. STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE ON THE RIDGES AND DESERT SLOPES.
FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK...THE STRONG JET STREAM WILL SHIFT SOUTH INTO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS THE EAST PACIFIC TROUGH MOVES TO THE COAST. THIS WILL BRING SEVERAL PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ANYWHERE FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL ON TOP OF SATURATED SOILS AND COULD PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING THEN. DUE TO THE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT...SNOW LEVELS WILL REMAIN HIGH.
RESIDENTS AND VISITORS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHOULD STAY INFORMED DURING THIS UPCOMING WET WEATHER. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS.
Hey. We are flying to Idaho on Thursday as well. Have a safe trip. We’ll be doing some Sun Valley skiing :-D.
And those guys have to be able to get out of their house first.In the early 70's when I lived in Tahoe, VW had a commercial for their bug stating it was the car snow plow drivers drove to work. If it wasn't for their light front end they are excellent cars for driving/traction in the snow
Worst over by Wednesday? Probably... but there will still be a few showers - with any luck, quite a bit less intense!
We’re supposed to have up to two feet of snow in far N. CA, but so far only a few inches - enough snow to knock out the tv.
We’re supposed to have up to two feet of snow in far N. CA, but so far only a few inches - enough snow to knock out the tv.
I remember getting 7.5 inches in one hour in Vicksburg. California has no freaking clue about weather....Our 300 ft trees on the coast protect us.
When you get enough rain to produce trees like this get back to us:
The gummint recently mandated that cities make their street sign in upper and lower case.
Maybe they should inform the weather people that their computers can produce lower case.
Even Microsoft Word can covert UC to mixed format.
prayers up for ya darlin’. We did the Santa Barbara to LA drive Friday (yesterday)— drive there and back to Santa Barbara. All went well. Good news is people are not out driving as much. Have a safe drive to Santa B and home.
Wish we could just stay huddled locally this weekend.
Heavy rain and wind woke me up twice last nite so imagine my disappointment when the rain gauges said that here on the Bender Estate above the mud flats of Humboldt Bay only received .3”...
Couldn’t get me back in LA for all of Soros money. What a major pit.
Some of us like being isolated from the insanity that is “humanity”.
Starting at about 3 am this morning, the frogs, ducks and geese were standing in line to come in and get out of the rain.
Our house is basically sound proof except when there is really hard rain with high wind. We had loud and noisy rain from 3 to 6 am.
The current Doppler shows the storm is now hitting Sac and into the Sierras. They are talking about 10-12’ of snow in the Truckee ski areas.
I 80 east and 50 were probably nightmares with the early Christmas traffic (last day of school until after New Years) was yesterday. A lot of parents kept their kids out of school yesterday or took them home early beginning at noon. Then they head to the Truckee/Tahoe area for a week of skiing with Christmas.
We have had 2 plus days of rain and the predictions show another 8-10 days.
We will probably find out if all of our flood prevention construction will work or not.
I used to live there at Lake Tahoe, briefly at Incline Village and then for over a year at South Shore. I worked on the Taho Queen the sternwheeler and also as a snowcat mechanic for Heavenly.
I remember I had to board the cable car up to my shop and down every day, a couple of times the winds and snow were so heavy we had to ride down on specially built tracked equipment that looked like a snow groomer with the wide grousers but had several rows of seats in the bed instead, iot was a heck of a cool job, and the skiing was free!
12’ of snow is a LOT, its going to jam up the roads for a couple of days, at the least it will help raise the lake level. I wish I was there again but I moved to Alaska.
I could take a trip south to Whittier, they get 85’ of snow per year.
We have friends, who have sons and daughters with good degrees who got caught up into the snows you described, and they became and still are basically ski bums in their late 30’s to early 40’s.
They have a lot of snow stories like yours.
Sorry about the typos, anyway I was doing this work there around 1990, there were times when I had to travel across the highest part of the CA side of Heavenly over to the Nevada side, in pitch black darkness, sometimes in near whiteout conditions or through mounds of man made snow from the water cannons and compressed air on towers on the main slopes, all on a snowmachine.
I have yet to bite the snowmachine bug but I will before next winter, because I do love a moon filled arctic night, cold and crisp, no lights from civilization, and all the glory of the Northern Lights overhead. If I buy a sled I’ll probably get a Yamaha as I have great credt with the local Yamaha dealer, thats where I bought my 1300 V-Star Tourer from.
“Actually, we get a LOT more snow than Alaska. The Sierra of California has some of the highest snowfall totals in the entire U.S.A. Think Donner party. Generators, kerosene lamps and woodstoves help. In the last few decades haven’t been without power more than a few days at a time, but yes it is hard without FR!”
The last big storm in November left us here on the west slope of the Sierra without power for a week! This round we are only getting rain...so far!
The Pineapple Express?
She isn’t going back anywhere, her trip is work related. Soros is worse than any city in our country, IMO.
It is now raining here at 6.000 feet on the eastern slopes, but still dumping snow just above me. The snow level will lower again tonight and Sunday.
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