Tag: california drought
First it was Northern California which got the constant hammering in January, then it was Southern California’s turn late last week and now the Atmospheric River has repositioned back into Northern California. The Friday storm which is said to have been SoCal’s strongest since December 2010 brought 108 mph gusts to the Grapevine along with heavy flooding rain […]
What a difference 10 days makes! The last round of excessive rain and snowfall essentially ended the California drought north of I-80, that’s 40% but drought remains in Southern California. San Francisco got more rain in the first 8 days of 2017 than in all of 2013! With 350 billion gallons of water pouring into Northern California lakes […]
Firstly, here’s two interesting article titles produced by the same journalist 8 months apart! After ‘years’ of poor rainy seasons and worsening drought, 2017 has started like a dream for California, if not a little too much too quick. While low elevations over parts of Northern/Central California has seen up to a foot of rain, […]
According to NOAA the 2015 El Nino has tied 1997-98 as strongest in recorded history. It would appear drought stricken California and the West is reaping the benefits but as per usual in classic powerful El Nino’s, rains and storms come in hard. This is the 5 freeway in north LA this morning. Visible satellite shows […]
While LA and San Diego have both dealt with record rainfall over the last 36 hours, it’s back to winter in the surrounding mountains, all thanks to an unusually late Alaska origin low which has swept directly over Southern California. Parts of San Diego were under water last night having recorded a 1.63 inches of rain. That’s the greatest […]
The anomalous Southwest upper trough continues to support cool temps and unseasonable precipitation across California and the Desert Southwest but this will join forces with storm and rain cooled air over the Plains. Eventually, towards the 7-10 day period, cooler than normal air should return to the East where summer warmth has had temps near 90 from DC […]
The 2015 El Nino is likely to become the biggest ‘global weather story’ in quite some time with major impacts heading for the United States drought area. This is likely to have US and global implication and could significantly dent the multi-year drought in California. Could it wipe it out through fall and winter? It would […]
It’s been another hot summer-like day for Southern California and Southwest as well as the Northern Plains where records have melted. Temps widely 30-40 above normal throughout Nebraska and the Dakotas but it’s been quite different further east where winter’s returned to the Northeast with heavy snowfall over New England including Boston where they’ve officially broke their 1995-96 record for […]
November ends completing a warmer, drier than normal Fall for drought ravaged California. Here are some stats. Current drought situation. Remains SEVERE! The good news is that we’ve a Pacific storm now pushing in and this will bring probably the biggest rains since March. A soggy Tuesday morning commute from San Francisco down to Los Angeles. […]
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