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4 Storms to hit West Pacific Coast USA & Canada in next 10 days

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Channel: thornews · 2017 · News & Politics

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They seem to be microwaving the shit out of the storms before they hit California so maybe it won't be that bad, but from the models it doesn't look good. 

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http://www.timesheraldonline.com/general-news/20170412/record-busting-rainfall-headed-to-bay-area

Record-busting rainfall headed to Bay Area

Not only will this week’s incoming storms be packing their usual grab bags of mischief for Northern California – widespread and heavier precipitation, winds gusting up to 30 mph, snowfalls dropping from 5,000 to 3,500 feet – but the systems appear to have their hearts set on breaking one big thing:

The all-time wettest water year on record for the Northern Sierra, the most important source of water for the entire state.

On Wednesday afternoon, as the northern half of the state braced for the first of several weather systems approaching over the next 10 days, the so-called “Northern Sierra eight-station index” sat at 88.2 inches. And that’s just a hailstone’s throw away (.3 inches) from the current record for the water year, which runs from October through September. So it appears the days are numbered for that record of 88.5 inches set back in 1982-83, says meteorologist Craig Shoemaker with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

“We are expecting to become the wettest water year by Thursday evening if not before,” he said. “We have a system coming through and it depends on where the heaviest precipitation falls Wednesday night and on into Thursday.”

And that’s not all: “We have several more systems in the offing after this current one,” said Shoemaker, looking at computer models tracking incoming storms over the next ten days. “So we expect to now only break the all-time record this week, but we could end up breaking it by a few inches next week because it looks like we’ve got a fair amount of moisture in these coming systems.”

The weather-watching community is especially amped this week to see a new record set for the North Sierra index because the eight data-gathering stations from Mt. Shasta down to Blue Canyon in Placer County are witnesses to the bulk of the state’s rainfall. All that water in the mountains finds it way into creeks which feed rivers like the Feather, eventually filling the all-important reservoirs that sit north of Highway 50 like the ill-fated Oroville Dam.

Shoemaker says that this week’s record-setting storms will be followed by several more systems into the following week. “We potentially have a fairly significant storm coming on Easter Sunday,” he said. “Another follows on Monday and we stay unsettled throughout most of the week next week, with another system later on that week all the way to April 20. Our longer-range models for ten days out are showing active patterns that continue without a break.”

The current level of 87.7 inches represents an amount that’s 205 percent of the historic average for this date, according to the state’s Department of Water Resources. In fact, several rainfall stations in the Bay Area have already set all-time water-year records on their own. The bulk of Wednesday’s storm is expected to arrive in time for the afternoon and evening commute, and will be accompanied by gusty winds up to 30 mph.

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