A rapidly intensifying low-pressure area south of the Gulf of Alaska this weekend will send an intense atmospheric river to the West Coast. Needed rain continues off and on into next week.
in the pressure drop required depending on latitude, but 24 millibars is usually considered the baseline.
While the bomb cyclone is well offshore as it explodes in intensity, it will help to gather a potent atmospheric river on its southern flank before flinging it at the West Coast. An atmospheric river is a long and narrow channel of jet-stream transported wind, clouds and rain that moves water vapor out of the tropics,Atmospheric rivers along the West Coast are, with 5 being most powerful, by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at the University of California at San Diego.
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