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Storms Bringing Needed Rains to California Seen From Space
« on: March 01, 2014, 05:40:04 AM »
Storms Bringing Needed Rains to California Seen From Space
LiveScience.com
By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer  7 hours ago

 

NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured this image of storms barreling towards California on February 27, 2014.



New satellite images from space reveal the storms bringing much-needed rains to California.

Yesterday (Feb. 27), a satellite image captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES-West satellite showed one system winding down after showering the California coast, with another big front waiting offshore.

That big cyclone was expected to inundate California with heavy rains today (Feb. 28) and through the weekend. The rains should push through the Southwest and the Intermountain region and reach the Rockies by nightfall. Southern California should brace for thunderstorms and some flash flooding, meteorologists warn. The unusually bare Sierra Nevada Mountains could see a foot of snowfall during the storm.

An atmospheric river of moisture-rich air snaking across the Pacific was responsible for several inches of rain that fell around northern and central California earlier in the month. But the weekend's storms are caused by a low-pressure system that picked up tropical moisture deep in the Pacific, and its counter-clockwise orientation means it will spit a lot of that moisture out as rainfall, said Bob Benjamin, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Monterey, Calif.

The storms, though welcome, aren't enough to make a big dent in the crushing drought that has plagued the region. Right now, about three-fourths of California is experiencing an exceptional or extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Several storms are needed to offset the year's lows, an unlikely prospect, as the wet season in California typically ends March 31.

For instance, in an average year, the San Francisco region typically receives about 17.6 inches (44.7 centimeters) of rain from July 1 to this time of year, but has received only about 6.2 inches (15.7 centimeters), according to the National Weather Service. The storms will bring only an additional inch or two or rainfall.

Mountain snow is also at a historic low: A statewide measure taken by the Department of Water Resources yesterday estimated that snowpack water content was 24 percent of the average for this time of year.


http://news.yahoo.com/storms-bringing-needed-rains-california-seen-space-214842336.html

 

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