Posted on 01/26/2021 6:14:02 PM PST by Mariner
The largest winter storm of the season is barreling toward California and is expected to bring extreme weather from San Diego to San Francisco, Sacramento to the Sierra.
This storm, forecasters say, has it all: Brutal winds, torrential rain, blizzard conditions, blinding snow, the threat of mudslides and debris flows, power outages and more.
“This is definitely looking like the storm of the year up to this point,” Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a forecaster with the National Weather Service’s Sacramento office said Monday.
And it’s all due to a so-called atmospheric river — a conveyor belt of unsettled moisture 300 miles wide — that pushes its way from the Pacific on shore. These rivers in the sky can cause a lot of damage quickly: Powerful atmospheric river systems like this week’s have been responsible for most of California’s biggest storm and flooding in the past few years.
Researches told The Sacramento Bee last year that atmospheric rivers — a phrase first coined in 1998 — often cause more than $1 billion in damage annually.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
It's funny that they came up with a special name for something that happens every other year.
No rain yet in Sunnyvale. We need a lot.
Every single weather term that’s used these days, anywhere in the United States, is either new in the past ten years, or it’s an obscure term previously only used by meteorologists. It’s all designed to make people think that the weather has suddenly turned into some implacable alien force hitherto unknown, with evil powers beyond our experience.
It’s all crap. When I got back east in the winter it’s the same way.
Meanwhile on the eastern slope of the Sierras, Reno area is iffy between ten and thirty inches between tonight and Thursday evening. 😨😱
We all need a lot in this parched state.
Just not all at once.
But we’ll take it anyway.
Celebrate!
Carson City?
The Sierras drain these “atmospheric rivers”.
90% falls in CA.
Normally yes. Forecasters seem serious about this one. Greenville and Minden are targeted as well. 😂. We are in Reno north valley’s about 5,200 elev.
At least most folks in Reno have chains.
But the hills become impassable for all except the most daring. That “Sierra Cement” quickly turns to a solid sheet of ice once a few vehicles pass.
How is the Oroville dam these days? Didn’t they just spend a brazillion $$ repairing it?
It should help the drought tho...
Oroville?
it’s at about 60-70% capacity...right now.
Plenty of room.
Yes, like all of a sudden a few years ago, weather people on TV started talking about derecho storms.
“Meanwhile on the eastern slope of the Sierras, Reno area is iffy between ten and thirty inches between tonight and Thursday evening. 😨😱”
Another typical winter here Reno. Kinda boring this year! Now 2004 in Reno was interesting with 5 feet of snow on my drive way!
Yee haw! No drought this year.
It’s not unprecedented for CA to have extreme weather...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
Big one’s every 100 years or so.
Awesome storm starting to roll in across San Jose. The locals in the Santa Cruz mountains compare it to storms of 1982.
That's what Climate CretinsTM do.
My brother is telling me that hundreds of people in Bonny Doon and nearby areas are under mandatory evacuation because this summer’s fires have denuded all the vegetation. Police are worried about landslides.
I’ve noticed that as well. I comment on those videos that use the word “Derecho” and tell them Americans don’t use that word.
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