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Heavy rain floods Highway 166. Update, 6 p.m.: Highway 166 flooded near Wasioja Road outside of Santa Maria during a freak thunderstorm on Thursday afternoon, according to CHP’s traffic incident ...
Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).
The climate of California varies widely from hot desert to alpine tundra, depending on latitude, elevation, and proximity to the Pacific Coast. California 's coastal regions, the Sierra Nevada foothills, and much of the Central Valley have a Mediterranean climate, with warmer, drier weather in summer and cooler, wetter weather in winter.
Extreme southern California (including San Diego metro area) is forecast to pick up 1 to 3 inches of rain, with locally higher amounts up to 5 inches.
2022–2023 California floods. Periods of heavy rainfall caused by multiple atmospheric rivers in California between December 31, 2022, and March 25, 2023, resulted in floods that affected parts of Southern California, the California Central Coast, Northern California and Nevada. [3][4] The flooding resulted in property damage [5][6][7] and at ...
The slow-moving atmospheric river that was finally moving out of California on Wednesday unleashed record rainfall, triple-digit winds and hundreds of mudslides. In four days, downtown Los Angeles ...
Here's California's storm by the numbers 02/06/2024 23:13 -0500 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The slow-moving atmospheric river still battering California on Tuesday unleashed record rainfall, triple-digit winds and hundreds of mudslides.
1930s. September 28–October 1, 1932 –A hurricane traversed most of the Gulf of California, spreading rainfall across California over four days. Tehachapi recorded 7.11 in (181 mm) of rainfall, of which more than half was recorded over a seven hour period. The rains produced flash flooding that killed 15 people.