>California Monster No. 2 (updated!) Thousands evacuated in burn areas!

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This post has new updated information as of Wednesday evening GMT


Courtey of the LA Times
Waves crash into the break wall behind homes on Pacific Coast Highway between Faria Road and Solimar Beach Road as high tide and large swells created heavy surf conditions while a second storm hit Southern California this week.

CALIFORNIA LASHING
Not a good beach day, even Tornado warnings up for LA County.
It’s a classic El Nino-storm situation across California as waves of intense precipitation bands roll in in association with a powerful Pacific Low which is producing off waves to 30 feet plus and sending heavy snow to higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada. Earlier today, a band of thunderstorms rolled through the Bay Area producing 50 mph wind gusts there. That same line of storms has rolled into the LA area bring intense wind and wave after wave of rain as well as forcing the NWS to issue a rare tornado warning for that densely populated region of over 15 million people.
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ALONG PARTICULARLY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST FROM BAY AREA TO OREGON BORDER OF BETWEEN 60-80 MPH. HIGH SIERRA GUSTS LIKELY OVER 100 MPH, BUT EVEN HEAVILY POPULATED BAY AREA AND LA AREA MAY SEE SOME DAMAGING GUSTS WITH INTENSE CELLS ROTATING IN OFF MAIN ENERGY SOURCE OF STORM.
Soaking for Las Vegas and Phoenix tonight
The bands of storms rolling down California today and into tonight is expected to push into the desert and impact the typically rain starved cities of Las Vegas and Phoenix, this is good news but whether this heavy rain will come with intense winds and perhaps even dust storms may be something residents there need to consider


ANOTHER ROUND WED NIGHT?

Yet another system will strike the coast of California tomorrow night and this will bring another series of rain bands and the worry is of damaging wind gusts along the coast with this also.

Wednesday: 9pm GMT

Embedded speed maxes within the Pacific Jet producing 250 mph winds………

-60 degree air over Siberia and El Nino warmed waters over the tropical Pacific and the vast thermal contrast is aiding in a rare 200 mph jet stream, a stream which is harnessing and fuelling a trio of powerhouse storms that are screaming into the California coast, producing flooding rains, damaging gusts, mudslides, FEET of snow in the mountains .
Yesterday as the core of storm 1 was coming ahsore, a concentrated thunderstorm cell amoung several blew into the Long beach and Huntington Beach areas producing a 93 mph gust at Huntington Beach as well as showing a Hook echo signature on radar which formed a tornado from.

So, today across California, at low levels theres lots of rain pushing in across the state and above 5,000 ft there’s heavy snow, likely thundersnow also to accompany concentrated bands which will be enhanced through orographic lift. Same will be for heavier more intense rain bursts at the lower elevated windward side of the coastal range where 6 or more inches of rain may come down. LA is likely basin-wide to see urban flooding and lots of bending of trees in those strong gusts roaring in off the wild and turbulent ocean, normally a place thousands love to head for, well certainly not today or the next several. Wave heights are measuring 30+ feet so the heavy rain, heavy snow, 30-40 mph winds across most areas and higher in mountains and the exposed coast to lightening, it’s all happening folks.

Evacuations have been ordered for many in the vast area in which the Station Fire consumed. I intend to update more soon.

Please stay safe and don’t take unnessesary risks.

Thanks for reading.
-Mark

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