Atmospheric River Hits Southern California

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Atmospheric river hits Southern California with risks of flash floods and deaths on stormy seas
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... An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river doused Southern California on Saturday, prompting flood warnings in areas of coastal Los Angeles County that recently were ravaged by wildfire.

The National Weather Service in Los Angeles and Oxnard reported heavy rainfall at rates as heavy as an inch (2.5 centimeters) per hour in coastal areas that are prone to flash flooding.

The previous day more than 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain fell over coastal Santa Barbara County as the storm approached Los Angeles. The National Weather Service urged people to stay indoors amid heavy winds.

The long plume of tropical moisture that formed over the Pacific Ocean began drenching the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday and unleashed widespread rain over Southern California on Friday and Saturday. More than a foot of snow was predicted for parts of the Sierra Nevada.

The California Highway Patrol said a 71-year-old man died Friday after his vehicle was swept off a flooded bridge in Northern California, and a 5-year-old was swept into the ocean by 15-foot (4.6-meter) waves at a state park on the Central Coast, triggering a search. ...

Did Lewzer finally open his giant faucet?

We call that rain and your typical fall Saturday in the Seattle area.

@#3 ... We call that rain and your typical fall Saturday in the Seattle area. ...

Yeah, that's the thing... "typical."

In the desert area of SoCal, this is not typical. The infrastructure is not designed to handle this.

Last year, here in CT we had a similar event.

Lots of water, no place to go.

August 18-19, 2024: Severe Flooding Disaster
portal.ct.gov

... Incident Overview

On August 18, 2024, a rainstorm approached the State of Connecticut, and quickly intensified unexpectedly. Flash Flood warnings were originally issued at noon until 1:30PM for Fairfield and New Haven counties by the National Weather Service (NWS), estimating the rainfall between 1 to 2 inches per hour.

Litchfield County was issued a Flash Flood warning at 3:40PM until 8:00PM. The Flash Flood Warnings for Fairfield and New Haven counties were extended until 12:15AM on August 19th.

Up to almost 16 inches of rain fell in 6-8 hours in some locations.

It was determined that the rainfall was significant enough to qualify as a 1,000-year flood in some areas, and 50, 100, 200, and 500 year flood in other areas.

Peak rainfall amounts exceeded 3 inches of water per hour, and 7 inches in three hours in a band from the Town of Monroe to the Town of Oxford both located in Connecticut.

The return frequency for this rainfall was greater than 1,000 years.

Connecticut also experienced major river flooding to include the Housatonic, Little River, and Naugatuck rivers. ...

There was devastation in towns here in CT due to the water.

No doubt made stronger by the elevated sea surface temperature.

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Next storm due Monday and after that either Thursday or Friday another one. Not expected to be so bad.

Yes, before this is over, we'll get perhaps three or four inches of rain. Last year we only had five and half for the full year (July to July) here in SoCal. And we had nearly an inch a few weeks ago, so it appears that we're heading into a wet winter. Now what's really important is that it snows up in the Sierras as that's the water we drink next year. Granted, this current rain will help to green up our lawns (at least for those of us who live down on the well drained flat lands), saving us from having to water the grass for the next couple of weeks or so.

OCU

Did Lewzer finally open his giant faucet?

#2 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Regardless, California still can't capture the water.

Dated but apropos

In a Drought, California Is Watching Water Wash Out to Sea
www.nytimes.com

But what CA can do is go deeply into debt spending $10B/yr on illegal immigration healthcare.

Thanks LuzomNewsom (who is currently in Brazil) ...

RUNT, your child-raping hero racked up $1 trillion in debt in 70 days.

But what CA can do is go deeply into debt spending $10B/yr on illegal immigration healthcare.

There you go again with your commie lies Commie Spy.

A $12 billion dollar deficit is a "rounding error" for the fourth largest economy in the world, with a nominal GDP of approximately $4.1 trillion as of 2024.

Meanwhile the health care industry is facing another crisis of affordability, Trumpy creates fear in the streets of America, destroys the East Wing of the White House to build a grotesque ballroom and illegally bombs Venezuelans while the recently unemployed and poor scramble for food in America while we all wait to find out how much of a pedophile our President really is.

And that is just a tiny glimpse of the destruction Trumpy and his maga maroons are doing to America.

California can recover from a $12 billion dollar deficit with the stoke of a pen. We will be cleaning up Trumpy's messes for decades and our grandchildren will be paying the debts he has incurred on our behalf.

GFY with your commie lies.

Yes, before this is over, we'll get perhaps three or four inches of rain.

Y'all don't know what rain is. www.google.com

Hit texas for the eclipse. never seen it rain so hard in my life.

Hit texas for the eclipse. never seen it rain so hard in my life.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-11-16 12:43 PM

Yes, our oldest son lives about 25-miles West of Houston. On one of our visits there, the night before we were to head home, it rained seven inches. Now the parking lot of the hotel was flooded, but not so that you couldn't drive out, and on our way home, many of the rivers which were virtually dry when we drove in, were full to their banks, but hadn't flowed over the highway so we weren't really inconvenienced.

And about 50-years ago, when I was on my first field assignment as an engineer, I was helping to start-up a bread line at a large commercial bakery in Fort Worth. Anyway, my boss called and they said that they needed someone to run over to Alexandria, Louisiana to mark-up a set of architectural blueprints for an older building that was going to be converted into production bakery. Anyway, on my way back, I had just crossed over into Texas from Shreveport, when it started to rain. It was the heaviest rainfall that I think that I have ever experienced. I had to pull off the side of the road and just wait it out, and I have to say, not a single car or truck passed me while I waited out the 30-minutes or so that it took for that storm to pass till where it had slowed enough that you could safely drive. If I never see rain like that again, I won't miss it. And I was in a Typhoon once that hit Tokyo where they shut the trains down. but that was mostly wind.

OCU

Great story, OCU.

Thanks for sharing.

#12

Mrs. Baird's?

fortworthreport.org

SoCal is as much a"desert" as Tuscany. The Mojave is a couple hundred to the east

never seen it rain so hard in my life.

#11 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

You will again. Probably.

As the atmosphere gets warmer it can hold more water. The rains and resulting floods will get bigger and bigger. As they have the last couple of years.

For each 1C increase in temperature, the atmosphere can hold about 7% more water vapor, and for every 1F increase, it can hold approximately 4% more.

Look what Japan is doing to compensate for increased flooding coming in the Future.

www.japan.travel
AI overview

Incredible underground flood protection facility in Japan is one ...
Japan's most famous underground reservoir is the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (MAOUDC), also known as the G-Cans Project, located near Tokyo in Kasukabe City, Saitama Prefecture. This massive, $1 billion flood control system protects the Tokyo metropolitan area from flooding by diverting and storing excess rainwater in a cavernous underground tank supported by 59 giant pillars. It can hold 670,000 cubic meters of water, the equivalent of 268 Olympic-sized swimming pools.