Tuesday Top of the Scroll: Atmospheric river storm this week will bring heavy rain, raise flood concerns with huge Sierra Nevada snowpack
The winter of 2023 isn’t finished yet. Not by a long shot. An atmospheric river storm is likely to hit Northern California late Thursday into Friday, meteorologists and climate scientists said Monday, bringing high chances of heavy rain in the Bay Area, 1 to 3 feet of new snow at higher elevations in the Sierra, and an increased risk of flooding as the warm rain hits the state’s massive snowpack. Details about the storm, a classic “pineapple express” event barreling in more than 2,000 miles from Hawaii, are still not certain. … [Forecasters] said that the latest storm by itself won’t likely be enough to cause major melting of the immense Sierra snowpack — which on Monday was 192% of its historic average, the most snow in 30 years — because the deep snow can absorb a fair amount of rain.
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