Friday, December 12, 2014

California Flooding

Rain has finally moved into California, and it is just pouring now in the Bay Area. It's a warm rain, too, with temperatures in the 60s at the onset of the precipitation. Not only that, but it is a sideways rain, with sustained winds of 15 to 25 mph, and gusts well over 40 mph. In a season that has been unremarkable in terms of rain for a state desperately in need of rain, this is far too much in too short of a period of time and is already causing flooding.
Any rain prior to 12z today is obviously left off the storm totals on the 12z December NAM forecast. Still, even taking that into consideration, rainfall totals going forward through tomorrow are nothing short of astounding:

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