Atmospheric rivers could bring 10 straight days of rain to these West Coast cities
… While dry weather continues in California, high clouds from the distant storms will dot the sky from San Francisco to Sacramento, creating ideal conditions for colorful sunrises and sunsets Thursday and Friday. A big high-pressure system blocking storms from hitting California is steering them toward the Pacific Northwest. … California’s Del Norte and Humboldt counties could get hit with passing showers from the storms, but rainfall totals are predicted to remain light. … Atmospheric rivers hitting the Pacific Northwest leave Northern California on the warm side of the moist air mass, and temperatures from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe could be 10 degrees or more above normal next week.
Other weather and water supply news around the West:
- Record Searchlight (Redding, Calif.): Rain coming to Redding? What forecast says after wet start to season
- Denver Gazette (Colo.): 10-20″ of snow forecast in Colorado from multi-day weekend storm
- The Land Desk: Blog: A weird water year so far: Abundant rain, sparse snow
- SnowBrains: Blog: Western U.S. experiences slowest start to winter in decades—but just how bad is it?
