According to the USGS California Water Resource Center, California is expected to get a full season of rain/snow in the next two weeks. These storms are being brought in from the west/northwest by a low altitude 200+ kt jet--just about as fast a wind as it gets on this planet. This means cold storms--low snow levals, along with 100-200 wind gusts at the Sierra peaks, as this low altitude jet literally runs into the mountains.
If these storm systems pick up tropical moisture later in the week as expected, extensive flooding is possible when the warm storms melt snow at the lower elevations. I sure hope all this precipitation puts a big dent in our drought.
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