Heads Up! Big storm coming to Cali and SW
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A years worth of rain!
what's that? 2 inches?The predicted 40 MPH winds and heavy rain that was supposed to hit the Sou Cal mountains last night never materialized.
It was windy yesterday afternoon and rain was steady but never a deluge, All in all it was much ado about nothing.
But the news networks in typical fashion milked it for all it was worth and stirred up a lot of near hysteria. In reality only a few areas were subjected to flooding and mudslides.
It was windy yesterday afternoon and rain was steady but never a deluge, All in all it was much ado about nothing.
But the news networks in typical fashion milked it for all it was worth and stirred up a lot of near hysteria. In reality only a few areas were subjected to flooding and mudslides.
The weather channel posted videos of flooding, muddy washouts, huge winds, etc...........well except the video was not 8/19, 8/20, 8/21...............it was last year and before. That is just wrong.
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It's wrong for sure. Pushing global warming perhaps?
Pushing clicks and eyeballs for sure
OC/LA county area around me was more like a medium rain shower.
Our weather here today is all upside down. Super humid and sprinkling rain. We usually have cold rain. Also rain outside of January-March is very odd for us.
I remember some pretty strong thunderstorms many with dry lightning in my 1960s childhood in Orange County CA. No idea what months though.
What struck me as odd moving from the midwest to L.A. was the comparative lack of thunder and lightning storms.
I probably didnt hear thunder for 5 years in LA.
Desert storms are a whole different thing.
Truth.
Sometimes even here we can go a couple years with no local thunder/lightning.
Highly localized. Just pop over the border to the appropriately named Lightning lake in Canada. We had to leave the campground twice in a hurry. Once because a lightning started fire (yikes) and once because hail destroyed our tent (double yikes) - both times with the kids around 2003-2004
That said, thunder snow is kinda cool.
After and during every storm I look at the actual impact to the local lakes which will now easily hold whatever this might dish out.
Oroville is the closest biggie to me. So far its a non event but there is always a delay as the mountain streams take time to gather momentum.
Oroville is the closest biggie to me. So far its a non event but there is always a delay as the mountain streams take time to gather momentum.
T/S combo is way rare.
So is a ferocious dust devil packing 90 mile an hour winds that winds it's way through hundreds of square miles of desert, and even jump a river, but somehow manages to go right through and totally trash your camp.
Should've bought a lottery ticket.
Yes I have seen it only a couple of times here in the Milwaukee area. When it happens it's a bit startling since the lightning flash is obscured by the snow yet lights up the whole sky. At first I didn't know what it was.