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The 2021 Pacific Northwest floods were a series of floods that affected British Columbia, Canada, and parts of neighboring Washington state in the United States. The flooding and numerous mass wasting events were caused by a Pineapple Express, a type of atmospheric river, which brought heavy rain to parts of southern British Columbia and northwestern United States.
[142] [143] Precipitation initially started as rain on April 15, but slowly changed over to snow in the mountains overnight. By the next morning, the rain-snow line had pushed as far east as the eastern Massachusetts coast. [144] Heavy snowfall fell throughout the day on April 16, with snowfall rates of 1.5 in (3.8 cm) and higher being reported ...
The 2021–22 North American winter was not as significant and record-breaking as the previous winter season.Despite this, several notable and significant events still occurred, including two separate record-breaking tornado outbreaks in mid-December, a significant winter storm in the South in mid-January, a powerful blizzard that impacted the Northeast coast at the end of January and a wide ...
Floodwaters in the Pacific Northwest have inundated homes, forced rescues and shuttered schools as a trio of deluges set rainfall records. Floodwaters rush through several Pacific Northwest towns ...
Western Washington will avoid the worst of the torrential rain, but widespread rainfall totals of 2-4 inches are likely. Excessive precipitation can continue over parts of Northern California from ...
The major event this week has rainfall totals upwards of 10-20 inches in some spots. Mountain snow totals are expected to be over a foot in most areas; higher elevations could receive upwards of 2 ...
[4] [8] A BuzzFeed study in May 2021 estimated that the winter storm may have killed a total of 702 people in Texas, which would add hundreds of deaths to the official death toll if verified. [44] The system was estimated by NOAA to have cost $21 billion in damage in the United States, making it the costliest winter storm in U.S. history at the ...
Additional rainfall totals could range between 1-2.5 inches in some areas along the central and nort However, a stretch of dry weather may be on the horizon later this week for portions of Central ...