{"id":42276,"date":"2019-01-04T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T22:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42276"},"modified":"2019-01-06T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T01:39:54","slug":"forget-el-nino-stormfest-is-about-to-hit-the-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42276","title":{"rendered":"Forget El Nino, StormFest is about to Hit the West Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget El Nino, StormFest is about to Hit the West Coast<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Things often calm down after January 1 during El Nino years….but not this year…with the U.S. West Coast from central California to Washington State about to be pummeled by a series of storm<\/b>s.\u00a0 \u00a0Rain, snow, wind?\u00a0 Plenty for everyone.<\/p>\n

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A view of the latest infrared satellite imagery shows an amazing line-up of one storm after another stretching way into the Pacific.\u00a0 A traffic jam of storms.<\/div>\n
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Let’s examine our stormy future, using a series of sea level pressure forecasts from the UW WRF weather forecast models (solid lines are sea level pressure, shading in lower atmosphere temperature).<\/div>\n
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At 10 PM today, a\u00a0 strong low is just off the northern tip of Vancouver Island.<\/div>\n
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10AM Saturday brings an energetic low center into northern CA.<\/div>\n
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10 PM Sunday?\u00a0 \u00a0Another storm hits central Oregon!\u00a0 And another system is in the wings.<\/div>\n
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That storm is right off our coast late Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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El Nino late winters generally have less action—not so this year!\u00a0 <\/b><\/div>\n
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What about precipitation you ask?\u00a0 \u00a0Do you really want to know?\u00a0 The accumulated total through 4 AM next Thursday is impressive, with 5-10 inches over many mountain areas and even 10-20 inches over parts of northern CA, the Olympics and southern BC.<\/div>\n
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Snow?\u00a0<\/b> \u00a0There will be abundant amounts.\u00a0 \u00a0For example, here is the accumulated snowfall for the 72 hours ending 4 PM Wednesday.\u00a0 2-3 feet for the high terrain from the central Sierra Nevada to southern BC.\u00a0 Our winter ski season is secure.<\/div>\n
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Wind?\u00a0 <\/b>You bet.\u00a0 Each of these storms will bring strong, damaging winds to a favored area of the coastal zone and mountain peaks.<\/div>\n
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…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/div>\n
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Forget El Nino, StormFest is about to Hit the West Coast Things often calm down after January 1 during El Nino years….but not this year…with the U.S. West Coast from central California to Washington State about to be pummeled by a series of storms.\u00a0 \u00a0Rain, snow, wind?\u00a0 Plenty for everyone. A view of the latest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23027,252,9955,1219],"class_list":["post-42276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cliff-mass","tag-el-nino","tag-storms","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42340,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42276\/revisions\/42340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}