Friday Top of the Scroll: Top expert on California’s atmospheric rivers: ‘It can break the drought’
A moisture-rich atmospheric river is forecast to hit California on Sunday and Monday, delivering a much needed drenching of rain to a drought-plagued state at a time of year when big storms are unusual…. We checked in with Marty Ralph, the director of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego…”When we’re in a drought and we get a good atmospheric river, it can break the drought. It might be what’s sort of happening right now. At least, we’re hopeful that if this isn’t the only one we get this year, it’s the start of a wetter winter….”
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