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NOAA's GOES West satellite captured enhanced color imagery of a powerful mid-latitude cyclone and atmospheric river impacting Northern California, the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia this week.
The “anomalously strong” storm system was considered a “bomb cyclone,” which occurs when a cyclone intensifies rapidly. Another, albeit weaker, bomb cyclone may develop and rapidly ...
A satellite image loop shows the bomb cyclone approaching British Columbia and Washington state on November 19, 2024. (NOAA/CIRA) Winds gusted as high as 85 mph in Oregon and 101 mph were reported ...
The storm system has intensified so quickly that it is considered a “ bomb cyclone,” explained Richard Bann, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center. The areas that could see particularly severe rainfall as the large plume of moisture heads toward land will likely stretch from the south of Portland ...
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In northern California, flood and high wind watches were in effect, with up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain predicted for parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, North Coast and Sacramento Valley. A winter storm watch was issued for the northern Sierra Nevada above 3,500 feet (1,066 meters), where 15 inches (28 centimeters) of snow was ...
A powerful extratropical cyclone developed c. November 18, 2024, in the Northeast Pacific and struck the Western United States and Western Canada. [9] [10] The storm underwent bombogenesis, rapidly dropping its central pressure [11] to a record-tying level of 942 millibars (27.8 inHg). [9]
The Weather Prediction Center's Excessive Rainfall Outlook on February 4 NOAA Automated Atmospheric River Detection Real-time Application to Satellite-Derived IWV Data on February 3 From February 1 to February 2, 2024, California experienced the impact of the first Pineapple Express storm caused by the atmospheric river, which subsequently ...