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California Sierra snowpack approaching 40 year record highs

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Not over yet, another "atmospheric river" is due here in the Bay Area Tuesday, i.e. in two days. Will it be the last? I wondered that after the last two atmospheric rivers. Seems like there have been a dozen this year. Most years it's averaged maybe one over the last decade. It's been a strange winter. Spring officially begins tomorrow... hmm.
 
According to U.C. Berkeley, the latest measurements put the current snowpack 1 inch short of being the 2nd snowiest winter on record. The current record was set in 1982 - 1983.
 
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Dammit, after days of calm we have the worst storm yet on the the day I’m flying to Vegas. Wind is so strong the trees are bent horizontal. When will this end?
 
woolfe9998 said:
Dammit, after days of calm we have the worst storm yet on the the day I’m flying to Vegas. Wind is so strong the trees are bent horizontal. When will this end?
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In however many centuries it takes humanity to stop fucking the planet and fix what we have done.
 
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Muse said:
Not over yet, another "atmospheric river" is due here in the Bay Area Tuesday, i.e. in two days. Will it be the last? I wondered that after the last two atmospheric rivers. Seems like there have been a dozen this year. Most years it's averaged maybe one over the last decade. It's been a strange winter. Spring officially begins tomorrow... hmm.
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Meanwhile up here in the PNW it's been a pretty dry winter.
 
Muse said:
Not over yet, another "atmospheric river" is due here in the Bay Area Tuesday, i.e. in two days. Will it be the last? I wondered that after the last two atmospheric rivers. Seems like there have been a dozen this year. Most years it's averaged maybe one over the last decade. It's been a strange winter. Spring officially begins tomorrow... hmm.
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Turned out the atmospheric river did not hit here, it went south and hit southern California yesterday. However, what did hit us was the center of the storm and unexpectedly it stalled right over us and had a confluence of vortexes that squeezed out a lot of moisture and near hurricane force winds... gusts over 80mph at times. The net effect, at least for me, was an event every bit as intense as the average atmospheric river. Tree limbs dropped around my property, I was pumping water out of the lake that inevitably forms on the west side of my house during intense rain storms... for ~8 hours. No snow, though. 😳 Of course, it NEVER snows here (unless in the coldest storm I drive up into the hills, but I never bother).
 
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Lol...not here.
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Last year January & February here had a combined precipitation total of 16.51", this year it was 7". Could be wetter over there, I know we have a lot of microclimates, but it's also been the driest winter in Seattle for 22 years.
 
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Snotel measures the water content in the snowpack. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/wcc/home/quicklinks/imap

So it doesn't actually capture rain totals at lower altitudes.
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Our low temps have been lower too, so I expect it could be what moisture there was ended up as snowpack. The licorice ferns are all tiny and sad this year, some of the tinier creeks only just started having water flow again in the last few weeks. Boomer practically lives in the ocean though, I'm a ways further inland.
 
Just encountered this related meme.

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Instead of what was anticipated in the Bay Area Tuesday we experienced a rare bomb cyclone. It was as drastic as any of the many atmospheric rivers to hit the region this year. 200,000 without power, downed trees all over the region, actually killing 5 people!

A dramatic drop in atmospheric pressure triggered the so-called bomb cyclone that swept in from the Pacific Ocean and clobbered the San Francisco area. The storm packed heavy rain and wind gusts of up to 90 mph that knocked down trees, blocking major roadways and highways, officials said.
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Five people were killed when trees fell on their cars in the Bay Area.
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From a flying couch to crushed cars, videos show strength of deadly San Francisco Bay Area storm

A flying couch, crushed cars and high surf. That's just a part of the chaos Tuesday's deadly storm caused across the Bay Area. Here's a look at just how powerful the system was.
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Weather forecast is for 4 days without storms beginning today, the first such stretch in 2 months IIRC. The last two Tuesdays have had major storms here and next Tuesday it is anticipated another major storm will hit here. It's nuts! Tuesdays are dynamite. The amazing fact is I have not personally experienced a power outage at my house this entire 2022-2023 stormy season! I did go to the library yesterday with a couple books that were due yesterday but they were closed - THEIR POWER WAS OUT! 😳 The book drop was taped over too...
 
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