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2022-12-11 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

'Atmospheric river event' crashes into California spraying 'fire hose' of six inches of snow an hour and torrential rain down the West coast - as millions across Plains, Midwest and South brace for blizzards, tornadoes and severe storms

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-11 08:13|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Nasa's Orion capsule on target for splashdown

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-11 08:42|| 2022-12-11 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 An 'atmospheric river' is a plume of moisture which comes in off the Pacific Ocean and is similar to a fire hose as it fires moisture into one specific area for an extended period of time leading to heavy rain or snow, explained CNN.

Just another effort to conflate 'climate' with 'weather', then inflict maximum panic about both?

Posted by Raj 2022-12-11 09:21|| 2022-12-11 09:21|| Front Page Top

Nicolaas Pieter Johannes Janse van Rensburg, 1864-1926:

"Die einde is naby" (The End is Near).

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-11 09:26|| 2022-12-11 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Wonder if Al Gore is in town?

Posted by Nguard 2022-12-11 10:20|| 2022-12-11 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 "To South of Yosemite" is a "journalist's" vague conception of location. It'll extend south into Owen's Valley down to Ridgecrest/China Lake on the 395

Posted by Frank G 2022-12-11 10:22|| 2022-12-11 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 the storm has dropped alot of snow from the sierras(shasta to bridgeport) to the northern Nevada Mns and on up to central idaho where I've gotten about 30 inches so far in my yard.

Posted by 746 2022-12-11 11:09|| 2022-12-11 11:09|| Front Page Top

#7 You mean a severe winter storm?

Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-11 11:30|| 2022-12-11 11:30|| Front Page Top

#8
Where is Al Gore and Greta ?
When will they be held accountable for the generations years of constantly changing lies and misleading info?

They made $$ Millions tell us lies.

If we can sue journalists for $ Billions for stating their opinions that wreck businesses and lives....

WHY NOT sue these CLIMATE DOOMSAYERS, given their history of being wrong repeatedly?

Posted by NN2N1 2022-12-11 12:39|| 2022-12-11 12:39|| Front Page Top

#9 When I was a lad growing up in the Bay Area, this was called normal winter weather. Good to see it back somewhat.

Posted by JHH 2022-12-11 13:09|| 2022-12-11 13:09|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm along the 395 at the South end of the Carson Valley, elevation 4950. We got several inches of rain Saturday and Saturday night, and we have about 4 inches of snow this morning. The Sierra's have gotten several feet of Sierra Cement (wet, heavy snow). Sierra-at-Tahoe reports 50" in past 72 hours.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-12-11 14:13|| 2022-12-11 14:13|| Front Page Top

#11 after the storm stops, the area will get a week or so of mostly clear wx with cold mornings

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-12-11 15:26|| 2022-12-11 15:26|| Front Page Top

#12 [Wiki]Pineapple Express is a non-technical term for a meteorological phenomenon characterized by a strong and persistent large-scale flow of warm moist air, and the associated heavy precipitation both in the waters immediately northeast of the Hawaiian Islands and extending northeast to any location along the Pacific coast of North America.
Happens every so often...

Posted by magpie 2022-12-11 15:44|| 2022-12-11 15:44|| Front Page Top

#13 These idjit reporters jump at any chance to use the “atmospheric river” term. Seems like it came into vogue about five years ago. I wonder what they’ll use the next time we have a real El Niño winter…atmospheric flood?

Posted by Remoteman 2022-12-11 16:47|| 2022-12-11 16:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Pineapple Express is a definite Journo fall back, even if the flow isn't from Hawaii region - too warm

Posted by Frank G 2022-12-11 17:59|| 2022-12-11 17:59|| Front Page Top

#15 So no more drought?

Posted by Percy Flotle3938 2022-12-11 18:24|| 2022-12-11 18:24|| Front Page Top

#16 CA always has that. It's one of our four seasons: Drought, Flood, Earthquake and Fire.

Posted by JHH 2022-12-11 18:30|| 2022-12-11 18:30|| Front Page Top

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