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Because of the cold California Current from the North Pacific Ocean and the fact that the storms tend to "steer" west, California has only been hit with three tropical storms in recorded history, a storm which came ashore in 1939 and dumped heavy rainfall on the Los Angeles area and interior deserts. The remnants of tropical systems will affect ...
As the storm courses through Northern California, rain is in the forecast for Sacramento. McKinley Thompson-Morley walks to work in the rain on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 in downtown Sacramento near ...
During the 1996-1997 water year, Northern California experienced extremely wet conditions in December and January. However, the rest of the winter and early spring saw little precipitation. Consequently, the snowpack in the northern Sierra Nevada was only 60% of the average by April 1, and many major reservoirs in California did not fill to ...
This distinction matters: weather is about immediate conditions; climate is the result of decades-long trends. Poor land management is the real elephant in the room.
Records from the National Weather Show that the Sacramento area received rainfall totals ranging from more than half an inch of rain to nearly an inch and a half in the past 24 hours.
Oakland, like much of Northern California, is susceptible to winter rainstorms and Atmospheric rivers. The wettest "rain year" was from July 1997 to June 1998 with 47.76 inches (1,213.1 mm) and the driest from July 2020 to June 2021 with 8.03 inches (204.0 mm). The most rainfall in one month was 15.35 inches (390 mm) in January 1911.
The winter also became the second snowiest at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, [153] which also made it the second deepest snowpack in California history. [154] This also helped produce copious amounts of rain in areas too warm for snow, with Hanford, California recording their wettest day on record on February 24, [ 155 ] and San ...
Call it an atmospheric river, a Pineapple Express or just weather, but some parts of California and the U.S. Northwest are being slammed by up to foot of rain before the storm runs out of moisture ...