{"id":60072,"date":"2021-10-23T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60072"},"modified":"2021-10-23T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:30:27","slug":"bomb-cyclone-to-unleash-atmospheric-river-over-northern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60072","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Cyclone To Unleash Atmospheric River Over Northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bomb Cyclone To Unleash Atmospheric River Over Northern California<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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A “bomb cyclone” will unleash an atmospheric river Saturday night into Sunday across Northern California.<\/p>\n

“By Saturday night, a rapidly intensifying Pacific cyclone directing a powerful atmospheric river squarely at the West Coast delivers a fire hose of rich subtropical moisture into California,” the\u00a0<\/em>Weather Prediction Center<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(WPC) said Friday.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

These two simultaneous weather phenomenons will result in the season’s first snow event in the Sierras and torrential rains for the coastline and valleys across central and Northern California.<\/p>\n

“You might hear this term referencing the Sunday-Monday storm coming our way. A bomb cyclone is simply a storm that gets very strong very quickly. It drops at least 24 mb (a unit of pressure) in 24 hours. The lower the pressure, the stronger the storm,” said\u00a0<\/em>Sacramento-based KTXL’s Adam Epstein<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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In Northern California, rainfall estimates through the end of the weekend are around 2-4 inches. In San Francisco, estimates are upwards of 3 inches.<\/p>\n

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WPC warns that some areas could receive 8-10 inches.<\/p>\n