🌧️ Southern California forecast 🌧️ Wednesday: Rains begin. Snow levels drop to 6,500 feet. Damaging south winds. Storms will be stronger in northern parts of region than in southern parts. Here's what to expect tomorrow
The atmospheric rivers set to arrive in California are being fed in part by a storm system sitting several hundred miles off the northern Pacific coast.“We already have some ongoing flooding in the area ... and we’re expecting more heavy rain,” said Scott Rowe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.
Meteorologists are already referring to the system as a “bomb cyclone” as it builds in intensity. “Bombogenesis” occurs when the system’s barometric pressure rapidly drops over a 24-hour period, generating a vacuum-like effect that funnels the storm and causes it to generate strong winds. In essence, the atmospheric rivers set to arrive will be accompanied by the bomb cyclone storm system.
“The atmospheric river event is able to tap into the moisture over the Pacific and bring in higher moisture to California,” said Cory Mueller, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento. When the stream hits California’s mountainous coasts, the atmospheric river pushes to higher altitudes to continue moving east. This tends to cool and condense the moisture in the tropical storm front, which then leads to rainfall.
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