Posted on 01/31/2024 1:55:06 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
“An impactful storm system will bring rain and wind to the area today and tonight,” the National Weather Service (NWS) Bay Area branch warned on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The first of the two storms, heading from Hawaii to Northern California, could bring “quite rambunctious” winds from the Bay Area to the Central Coast, according to the local NWS.
Such winds, coupled with saturated soil conditions, could topple trees and cause power outages, the meteorologists warned on X.
“This one’s going to pack quite a punch,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a Tuesday webinar.
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Which happens every year in late January and February.
Weatherman is Mr Crab.
Looks like Pacifica might lose some more houses.
“Pineapple Express”
Has kind of a racist sound to it.
Thought it was some new strain of skunk weed, TG it’s just a rain storm.
I was in the SF Bay Area when the devastating Pineapple Express hit I think in the late 90’s as I recall. Huge flooded rivers in the Sierras taking away whole houses. I would walk along the bay at lunchtime and would see wood and debris floating around from the destroyed Sierra homes. Hope this doesn’t happen again.
One of my early winters in San Francisco was 97-98 the wind blew so hard the speedometer on Yerba Buena Island broke.
Or Plankton.
These storms pack a punch. They can have it.
It’s weather. Hopefully our first decent snow for the season.
Global Warming is a bigger fraud than Cold-19.
WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE.....someday.
Do they have to keep saying formerly Twitter?
I’m as opposed to the cutesy weather terms as much as anyone else, but in all fairness “Pineapple Express” is a pretty old and venerable expression hereabouts. Alas, Reno, the bedevilment of El Niño this year appears likely to continue, with the bulk of the energy shifting south, rather than the northern Sierra where the principal reservoirs are. Still, as you say, we’ve been short of significant storms this year and hopefully something decadent will hit where needed
We grew up in Kalifornia when it was California and Ronaldus Magnus was our Governor. We were halfway between San Francisco and San José. San José still had orange groves where we would bicycle.
I remember that in some years, it rained a lot in October to December. There was another year where there was little or no rain in either January or February. The Drive-By Media began pushing the drought. Then it rained almost every day of March. The Drive-By Media then deleted the drought crap, and warned about too much water.
Pineapple Express storms often bring several days of rain. However, it’s warm rain and the snow level in the mountains is high. It’s the Gulf of Alaska storms that bring heavy rain and snow at lower elevations.
As soon as it begins to rain again following a drought, the bureaucrats and the drive-by media claim that the rain won’t help alleviate the drought. Only when the floods start do they finally shut up.
They’re all gonna die. Got a buddy in Long Beach, I’ll get reports from the scene.
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