'Atmospheric river' dumps heavy rain, snow across California leading to widespread flooding

[Failzero]

That's a fools errand. Shasta hasn't been even close to full in years. They let Water out a lot , it’s not like Whiskeytown Lake which is kept full during the Summer , Shasta has to feed The Sacramento , and it has been so full they were releasing so much water that the Park Marina area of Redding had drastic flooding .

 

[boedicca]

La Niña & El Niño are California Storm situations

Yes, as a lifelong Californian, I'm quite familiar with those. They affect the creation of storms, not elevated rivers in the sky.

 

[Failzero]

Yes, as a lifelong Californian, I'm quite familiar with those. They are storms, not elevated rivers in the sky.

If it rains almost every other day for 3 + weeks straight who gives a shit which it is

 

[Failzero]

Shasta could fill easily , the droughts are transitory

 

[ReinyDays]

I hate all of these new weather terms--dustnado, bomb cyclone, snownado, atmospheric river, polar vortex etc. What was wrong with "The storm door is open?" I was even OK with "pineapple express," "arctic blast" and "chinook winds"--at least they were descriptive.

Amen brother ... strictly New Speak, these new terms are intended to bring on a fear reaction to things we need not fear ... but the Weather Channel needs to sell Ford F-150s with the snow plow attachment ...

Atmospheric river events are fairly common in the region ... but they are local events ... a narrow band of moisture streaming off the ocean and raining out (or snow) against the mountains ... so for any specific river drainage, the odds of an event is much longer ... and for fun let's assume a 10-year event for a river ... we have ten rivers in the region ... so we average one event in one river per year over the region ... so 9 years on average we're cool ... but with all meteorological averages, we have a rather large standard deviation, and getting river after river after river month after month after month is to be expected and we all are prepared ... why we measure rainfall in feet here ...

Catastrophic events require a ten-foot layer of sloppy wet snow to a low elevation (large area) ... and then dump a foot of Hawaiian warm rain on top ... 1964 on the Klamath River was Biblical ...

 

[boedicca]

If it rains almost every other day for 3 + weeks straight who gives a shit which it is

Well, for some of us, language actually matters. Making up words to create an impression that garden variety weather events are somehow "new" and "dangerous" feeds the Climate Change Tyranny Agenda.

No thank you. I decline to participate in that.

 

[Failzero]

Well, for some of us, language actually matters. Making up words to create an impression that garden variety weather events are somehow "new" and "dangerous" feeds the Climate Change Tyranny Agenda.

No thank you. I decline to participate in that.

Me too , but again Shasta releases a lotta water ( in emergency releases we get Flooding in Redding & Anderson) and can easily fill in non drought years , has since after WW2

 

[Failzero]

Well, for some of us, language actually matters. Making up words to create an impression that garden variety weather events are somehow "new" and "dangerous" feeds the Climate Change Tyranny Agenda.

No thank you. I decline to participate in that.

Me too , Shasta has vast releases of water ( In emergency releases it floods in Redding and Anderson , it has filled to capacity many times in non drought years since WW2 ) so raising it is costly but correct move

 

[Crick]

Well, for some of us, language actually matters... Feeds the Climate Change Tyranny Agenda.

No thank you. I decline to participate in that.

That's as fucking ironic as it gets there babycake.

 

[boedicca]

That's as fucking ironic as it gets there babycake.

It's as clear as the standard English language used in pre-SJW versions of dictionaries and thesauruses, bub.

 

[Failzero]

It's as clear as the standard English language used in pre-SJW versions of dictionaries and thesauruses, bub.

SJW speak ( Minor Attracted )

 

[boedicca]

SJW speak ( Minor Attracted )

They hate it when they are called out on their perversion of language to support their satanic agendas.

 

[Crick]

It's as clear as the standard English language used in pre-SJW versions of dictionaries and thesauruses, bub.

By ironic, I did not mean that it was unclear. I meant that it was more than a little obtuse of you to complain about people making up terms and in the next sentence use "Climate Change Tyranny Agenda" (in caps, mind you).

 

[sparky]

~S~

 

[boedicca]

By ironic, I did not mean that it was unclear. I meant that it was more than a little obtuse of you to complain about people making up terms and in the next sentence use "Climate Change Tyranny Agenda" (in caps, mind you).

You're really not very bright. I commented on people making up new words for common everyday things to make them seem scary.

The Climate Change Tyranny Agenda does not fall into that category. Calling it Tyranny is perfectly accurate. It has destroyed affordable energy across the planet. This was done on purpose to force people to use uneconomic and unreliable green alternatives, which uncoincidentally, financially benefit the politicians and their cronies who promote them.

 

[ding]

That's as fucking ironic as it gets there babycake.

No. It's just science.

 

[Billy_Bob]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A powerful storm Saturday ushered in the new year in California, with much of the state witnessing drenching rain or heavy snowfall that was snarling traffic and closing highways.

In the high Sierra Nevada, as much as 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow could accumulate Saturday into early Sunday. The National Weather Service in Sacramento warned about hazardous driving conditions and posted photos on Twitter showing traffic on snow-covered mountain passes, where vehicles were required to have chains or four-wheel drive.

The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean, and flooding and rock slides triggered by the storm closed portions of roads across northern California.

Weather service meteorologist Courtney Carpenter said the storm could drop over an inch of rain Saturday in the Sacramento area before moving south. One ski resort south of Lake Tahoe closed chair lifts because of flooding and operational problems, and posted a photo on Twitter showing one lift tower and its empty chairs surrounded by water.

“We're seeing a lot of flooding,” Carpenter said.

The Stockton Police Department posted photos of a flooded railroad underpass and a car that appeared stalled in more than a foot (30 centimeters) of water.

The rain was welcomed in drought-parched California, but much more precipitation is needed to make a significant difference. The past three years have been California’s driest on record.

A winter storm warning was in effect into Sunday for the upper elevations of the Sierra from south of Yosemite National Park to north of Lake Tahoe, where as much as 5 feet (1.5 meters) of snow is possible atop the mountains, the National Weather Service said in Reno, Nevada.

A flood watch was in effect across much of Northern California through New Year’s Eve. Officials warned that rivers and streams could overflow and urged residents to get sandbags ready.

Some rainfall totals in the San Francisco Bay Area topped 4 inches (10 centimeters).

The state transportation agency reported numerous road closures, including Highway 70 east of Chico, which was partially closed by a slide, and the northbound side of Highway 49, east of Sacramento, which was closed because of flooding. In El Dorado County, east of Sacramento, a stretch of Highway 50 was closed because of flooding.

Humboldt County, where a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck on Dec. 20, also saw roadways begin to flood, according to the National Weather Service’s Eureka office. A bridge that was temporarily closed last week due to earthquake damage may be closed again if the Eel River, which it crosses, gets too high, officials said.

It was the first of several storms expected to roll across California over the next week. The current system is expected to be warmer and wetter, while next week’s storms will be colder, lowering snow levels in the mountains, said Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

The Sacramento region could receive a total of 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimeters) of rain over the span of the week, Chandler-Cooley said.

“Strong winds could cause tree damage and lead to power outages and high waves on Lake Tahoe may capsize small vessels,” the weather service in Reno said.

Avalanche warnings were issued in the backcountry around Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes south of Yosemite.
On the Sierra’s eastern front, flood watches and warnings continue into the weekend north and south of Reno, Nevada, where minor to moderate flooding was forecast along some rivers and streams into the weekend.

In Southern California, moderate-to-heavy rain was falling Saturday. The region will begin drying out on New Year’s Day and the Jan. 2 Rose Parade in Pasadena should avoid rainfall.

Another round of heavy showers were forecast for Tuesday or Wednesday, the National Weather Service in Oxnard said.

'Atmospheric river' dumps heavy rain, snow across California

'Atmospheric river'.....Really?

Sorry about the "wall of text" but it just shows how breathless these assholes are getting about every weather event.

Hey CA dumb-shits, you are getting a decent rain for a change, STFU about it and enjoy. Maybe it will wash away the shit on the sidewalks.

People do not realize these events are how the canyons and the plains were created. This is cyclical earth behavior. This is why we have the mountains and valleys we do. People are so ignorant of the planets history that they are scared of their own damn shadows, what they are seeing they have never seen before. They do not know how to process the event and it is being used to drive fear by the control mongers.

Everything on TV today or on social media is propaganda of some type. There is always a political goal in the spin.

 

[Billy_Bob]

Just wait... The Colorado snow pack is almost 200% of normal. Lake mead is going to get a good fill up soon.

 

[Failzero]

That might take 400+ % of Normal

 

[frigidweirdo]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A powerful storm Saturday ushered in the new year in California, with much of the state witnessing drenching rain or heavy snowfall that was snarling traffic and closing highways.

In the high Sierra Nevada, as much as 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow could accumulate Saturday into early Sunday. The National Weather Service in Sacramento warned about hazardous driving conditions and posted photos on Twitter showing traffic on snow-covered mountain passes, where vehicles were required to have chains or four-wheel drive.

The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean, and flooding and rock slides triggered by the storm closed portions of roads across northern California.

Weather service meteorologist Courtney Carpenter said the storm could drop over an inch of rain Saturday in the Sacramento area before moving south. One ski resort south of Lake Tahoe closed chair lifts because of flooding and operational problems, and posted a photo on Twitter showing one lift tower and its empty chairs surrounded by water.

“We're seeing a lot of flooding,” Carpenter said.

The Stockton Police Department posted photos of a flooded railroad underpass and a car that appeared stalled in more than a foot (30 centimeters) of water.

The rain was welcomed in drought-parched California, but much more precipitation is needed to make a significant difference. The past three years have been California’s driest on record.

A winter storm warning was in effect into Sunday for the upper elevations of the Sierra from south of Yosemite National Park to north of Lake Tahoe, where as much as 5 feet (1.5 meters) of snow is possible atop the mountains, the National Weather Service said in Reno, Nevada.

A flood watch was in effect across much of Northern California through New Year’s Eve. Officials warned that rivers and streams could overflow and urged residents to get sandbags ready.

Some rainfall totals in the San Francisco Bay Area topped 4 inches (10 centimeters).

The state transportation agency reported numerous road closures, including Highway 70 east of Chico, which was partially closed by a slide, and the northbound side of Highway 49, east of Sacramento, which was closed because of flooding. In El Dorado County, east of Sacramento, a stretch of Highway 50 was closed because of flooding.

Humboldt County, where a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck on Dec. 20, also saw roadways begin to flood, according to the National Weather Service’s Eureka office. A bridge that was temporarily closed last week due to earthquake damage may be closed again if the Eel River, which it crosses, gets too high, officials said.

It was the first of several storms expected to roll across California over the next week. The current system is expected to be warmer and wetter, while next week’s storms will be colder, lowering snow levels in the mountains, said Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

The Sacramento region could receive a total of 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimeters) of rain over the span of the week, Chandler-Cooley said.

“Strong winds could cause tree damage and lead to power outages and high waves on Lake Tahoe may capsize small vessels,” the weather service in Reno said.

Avalanche warnings were issued in the backcountry around Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes south of Yosemite.
On the Sierra’s eastern front, flood watches and warnings continue into the weekend north and south of Reno, Nevada, where minor to moderate flooding was forecast along some rivers and streams into the weekend.

In Southern California, moderate-to-heavy rain was falling Saturday. The region will begin drying out on New Year’s Day and the Jan. 2 Rose Parade in Pasadena should avoid rainfall.

Another round of heavy showers were forecast for Tuesday or Wednesday, the National Weather Service in Oxnard said.

'Atmospheric river' dumps heavy rain, snow across California

'Atmospheric river'.....Really?

Sorry about the "wall of text" but it just shows how breathless these assholes are getting about every weather event.

Hey CA dumb-shits, you are getting a decent rain for a change, STFU about it and enjoy. Maybe it will wash away the shit on the sidewalks.

Yes, the media tries to make the weather interesting by giving it silly names.

It's CAPITALISM.