2022-2023 California and Southwest Weather Thread

[Anti Marine Layer]

Partly cloudy and chilly today

[NWbyNW]

NorCal getting wet.  This region saw many mudslides and trees down in the past storms.  Already saturated.  We'll see how it goes. Strong waves along the coast as well.  Currently sparing the Bay Area. 

[NWbyNW]

Some good rain totals over the last 24hrs!

[AquariusRadar]

Can you share a link to that nice rain totals graphic. I hadn't seen it before.

[NWbyNW]

2 hours ago, AquariusRadar said:

Can you share a link to that nice rain totals graphic. I hadn't seen it before.

Yes! I got to thank someone in the PNW thread for sharing it with me.

LINK

To see the precipitation totals, at the top right click the 'Observations' Tab.  At the 'Display:' line it should read 'Station Plot.'  Change this to 'Precipitation.'

Then the overlay changes and you can change the duration (the amount of hours of the observation) as well as other features to the map.  It's quite useful.

[NWbyNW]

43 minutes ago, Chris said:

Casitas is up to 36% today on the graph.  New math.

 

Excellent!! Thank you for posting! Nice to see these continuing to go up, as long as the state doesn't dump water from them.  

[Reg]

Lot of PacNW posters in here lately, and they’re certainly welcome to join- marine layer got his wish for more activity in this thread as well.

[Iceresistance]

Oakland's Yearly Rainfall has already been reached, in a week!

[NWbyNW]

4 hours ago, Reg said:

Lot of PacNW posters in here lately, and they’re certainly welcome to join- marine layer got his wish for more activity in this thread as well.

Thank you!  I came down to focus on the storms and try to inject some more conversation here.  I don't think anyone else came except for Chris.  

[Doinko]

2 minutes ago, NWbyNW said:

Thank you!  I came down to focus on the storms and try to inject some more conversation here.  I don't think anyone else came except for Chris.  

I and probably many others really appreciate the updates as well even if I don't comment much here.

[roadtonowhere08]

Yup, I come here all the time.  I just don't have much to add beyond what Marine Layer and others say.  It must be deflating at times for him when there's dull weather, but I do appreciate it.

[Anti Marine Layer]

We reached the low 70s today and it felt nice.

[Thunder98]

Rain is about to start very soon!

 

[AquariusRadar]

Here is an article about Sacramento valley flooding-Flooding history

https://www.yahoo.com/news/6-worst-floods-sacramento-history-133000022.html

If the population of the Sacramento valley has increased X10 times the 1955 population, when 60 people died in the flooding, and today's 2023 flooding has taken 2 dozen lives-not 600- means (1) flood control efforts are working, and/or climate change is making for less rain-less flooding than in the recent 1955 past?

Another indication that climate change might mean a dryer climate rather than a wetter climate is the history of record rains- this one for San Francisco.

Since Oct. 1

While our generation looks upon 2022-2023 as an epic wet water year, It appears from this example that the past was wetter- at least for this major part of the water year.

[NWbyNW]

42 minutes ago, Thunder98 said:

Rain is about to start very soon!

 

Dang, that grouping looks so organized!

[NWbyNW]

The amount of rainfall in just the past 12 hours is a lot!  Here the storm is now deep inland with some patches of heavy rain.  Flood risk is high.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Lots of high clouds ahead of our next dousing.

[Thunder98]

lol this front is dying quickly

 

 

[Thunder98]

hahahahahahahaahah!

 

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

32 minutes ago, Thunder98 said:

hahahahahahahaahah!

 

 

Drizzle will dominate 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Halo around the sun here. Bad weather coming soon.

[Thunder98]

The sun angle today is 2 degrees higher than it was on the Winter Solstice.

[Front Ranger]

4 more days with significant rainfall for CA, then finally a real break.

 

[NWbyNW]

Wanted to show two things. The first map shows the 72hr precipitation totals.  Some great totals there.  The second map shows the density of the snow pack.  As you can see, there is some intense snow now in California.  Let's hope it stays in the mountains and can supply the state with abundance in the summer months.  

[NWbyNW]

Earlier when talking about reservoirs dumping their loads... water, I found a page that allows us to see all their "Scheduled" dumpings.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/queryRes.html

So I am no expert on dams and whatnot, but it seems like they do this all the time, even when there is extreme drought....  Maybe they shouldn't do it when there is drought? Maybe they should be keeping water?  I don't know.  Ignore me.  

Was looking for the latest summary report on the storage totals, but can you believe it?  They don't update at 12:55am!  How dare they!   lol  I should go to bed... 

[Thunder98]

Nice steady rain in SB County

 

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Light rain has begun here.

[Thunder98]

I'm now over 7" of rain for the month, which is now the wettest month since Dec 2010! where I got over 10" that month!

[Anti Marine Layer]

It keeps on raining. Looks like the storm arrived early.

[Anti Marine Layer]

0.30" so far.

[Anti Marine Layer]

On 1/10/2023 at 1:33 PM, Reg said:

Just got back home. Drove in the middle of an absolute deluge of rain and ferocious wind, had to pull over into a parking lot for a few minutes because I could not see the road. 0.73" here now, light rain still continuing. Lots of minor street flooding.

Should get at least 10.00" for a total this year.

[Anti Marine Layer]

0.37" now, which is rather low considering how hard it is raining

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

POURING NOW!!!!!

[Anti Marine Layer]

Keeps on keeping on.

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

0.61" now.

[Anti Marine Layer]

San Diego looks to be taking a hit now. Not raining quite as hard here, but still relentless.

[Thunder98]

1.11" as of 4pm today. Rain was mostly moderate with some periods it was heavy.

[Anti Marine Layer]

0.99" and counting

[Anti Marine Layer]

1.11" so far.

[Thunder98]

52 minutes ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

1.11" so far.

How about now