Atmospheric river will begin to be felt this Thursday night in southern Californiawith more rainfall in the region.
The atmospheric phenomenon is combined with a low pressure system that originated in the Pacific Ocean, so it will bring more moisture to California.
Impacts are expected to be strongest in the north and center of the state, and They are expected to decrease in intensity as they move towards southern California, although the region will experience rainfall that can reach 0.5 to 1.5 inches..
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Rain to continue through Friday and possibly Saturdayjust in time to clear the skies ahead of the Oscars on Sunday night.
However, more rain expected in the middle of next week with another weather event.
Unlike the recent blizzard, this atmospheric river is accompanied by higher temperaturestherefore, snowfall is expected only at higher elevations in the mountains.
The risk is that snowpacks deposited at lower elevations can melt and, when combined with rainfall, cause flash floods.especially in mountain canyons with streams that can overflow their banks, as well as in areas near the scars of forest fires.
“Those collector flows that capture all the snowmelt and rain at the same time will cause some of the highest flows we have seen in a long time,” UC Irvine climate engineering expert Brett Sanders told the ABC network.
Flood warning issued communities in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.
The National Weather Service (NWS) predicts that flooding is possible from Thursday evening to Friday evening.
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Source: La Opinion
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