This may be your lead on national newscasts by this weekend.
The opening salvo of the 2012-'13 winter storm season is slamming the West Coast today with torrential rain, fierce wind and prolific mountain snow.
The system will likely deliver some incredible, flood spawning rainfall totals up to 1 foot in some areas in the next 5 days.
In the mountains, heavy snow will fall above 8,500 feet. Since this is a relatively warm early season system, snow levels will remain relatively high. Winter Storm Warnings are flying for the High Sierra.
It's the first wave in a series of low pressure systems that will ram the West Coast through early next week. The storms are being fueled by the infamous "Pineapple Express" - a plume of tropical moisture that injects copious rainfall enhancing moisture into storms that strike the western USA.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/updraft/archive/2012/11/pineapple_express_kicks_in_epi.shtml
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