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Zorro

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Tue Mar 7, 2023, 02:30 PM Mar 2023

California braces for flooding, snowmelt from a warm atmospheric river set to slam state

Another atmospheric river system has set its sights on California, raising considerable concern about flooding and structural damage as warm rain is expected to fall atop the state’s near-record snowpack this week, forecasters say.

“It now appears increasingly likely that a potentially significant and very likely warm atmospheric river event will probably affect some portion of Northern or Central California sometime between about late Thursday and Saturday,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said during a briefing Monday.

Last week, the odds of such a system developing were about 20%. By Monday, the chances had increased to “7 or 8 out of 10, if not higher, for a warm atmospheric river event of some magnitude,” Swain said. At least one more storm could follow this month.

The forecast comes as California is mired in remarkably deep snowpack amid one of its wettest winters on record. A series of nine atmospheric river storms hammered the state in early January, causing levee breaches, widespread flooding and nearly two dozen deaths.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-03-07/california-forecasters-warn-of-approaching-atmospheric-river

It's bright and sunny in San Diego today, hopefully we'll get a couple of days to dry out. Current predictions are that the upcoming storm will only marginally affect us here, but it's been a weird winter this year.

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California braces for flooding, snowmelt from a warm atmospheric river set to slam state (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2023 OP
Stay safe calies jpak Mar 2023 #1
Oh, boy ... huge test of the delta levees Auggie Mar 2023 #2
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