SACRAMENTO: California braced on Thursday (Mar 9) for the arrival of another atmospheric river that forecasters warned will bring heavy rain, strong winds, thunderstorms and the threat of flooding to a state still digging out from earlier storms. The flood threat will come from the combination of rain and
SACRAMENTO: California braced on Thursday for the arrival of another atmospheric river that forecasters warned will bring heavy rain, strong winds, thunderstorms and the threat of flooding to a state still digging out from earlier storms.
The snowpack at high elevations is so massive it should be able absorb the rain, forecasters said. But elevations below 1,219m will see melting and runoff. The National Weather Service characterized the flood threat as “moderate.”California's Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides about a third of the state's water supply, is more than 180 per cent of the average on Apr 1, when it is historically at its peak.
In the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles a late February storm reached blizzard status. Mountain towns like Lake Arrowhead were buried.
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