Thursday Top of the Scroll: Record-breaking rain lashes California, with more on the way
A record-setting atmospheric river has moved out of California, but the stage is set for even more rain in the week ahead. Following a relatively modest-looking storm that’s expected to arrive in Southern California on Thursday afternoon, forecasters are tracking another, potentially more powerful system that could douse the Southland before or around Valentine’s Day. There is now a 20% chance that there could be high amounts of rain between Feb. 12 and Feb. 15, according to Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office. That’s up from a 10% chance that was forecast a day earlier.
Other atmospheric river/water supply news across the West:
- Newsweek: Atmospheric river breaks 138-year-old rain record in San Francisco
- The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.): How much rain did we get? See records in Northern California and what’s to come for SoCal
- The New York Times: Why California’s Wettest Storms Can Be Its Trickiest
- KCRA (Sacramento, Calif.): A look at Folsom Lake’s water levels after days of rain soaks Northern California
- CBS News: Lake Berryessa’s spillway fully active after Northern California atmospheric river
- The Record Searchlight (Redding, Calif.): Keswick Dam too full will send 5 times more water down Sacramento River due to storms
- KRON4 (San Francisco): These Calif. reservoirs are full thanks to February storms
- The Journal (Cortez, Colo.): Will the next six weeks turn around Southwest Colorado’s dismal snowpack?
- Las Vegas Review-Journal: Is Lake Mead in peril? Snowpack declines in the West, worrying some