Day 354: Southern California Soaker
A very moist cyclone is currently pounding the west coast of the United States. This cyclone is bringing much needed rains to southern California; however, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. Flash flood warnings are in effect for portions of southern California because of the significant rainfall. The moisture doesn’t stop in southern California. This moist plume extends northeast from California into central and southern Nevada into central and northern Utah into western Colorado, where winter storms warnings are in effect for the higher terrain.
Some places in the Sierra Nevadas have received over 9 feet of snow! This should help with the long term drought situation. When this snow melts in the spring/summer months it should help to keep area lake levels from dropping too low.
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Patrick Marsh is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oklahoma's School of Meteorology. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Physics (cum laude) from the University of Arkansas in 2005 and a Masters of Science in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 2007. In addition to working on his doctorate, Patrick serves as the National Severe Storms Laboratory Liaison to the Hazardous Weather Testbed where his research interests lie in working with operational forecasters, data mining, data visualization, and all things high-impact weather. For more about Patrick's work, check out his complete CV!
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