Shored up? If coastal erosion in the face of rising seas is a public policy concern, you wouldn’t know it from Gov. In California, that generally means more rain and accompanying landslides, floods and coastal erosion. New estimates from the World Meteorological Organization put good odds on the Pacific Ocean breaking from its three-year La Niña pattern and ushering the return of El Niño. There could be even more rain in California’s long-term forecast. We’re looking at potential for flooding.” National Weather Service meteorologist Carlos Molina : “We’re going to see rain on top of snow…We’re going to basically lose a lot of the snow that fell from the previous storms.That’s good news for those of us still recovering from our astronomically higher January natural gas bills, sent skyward in part by the unusually cold weather.īut it could be bad news for those counting on California’s nearly unprecedented Sierra snowpack - or for those living downstream. And unlike some prior storms, this one - a subtropical “Pineapple Express” - is expected to be fairly warm. This latest plume is now forecast to hit the northern and central regions of the state late Thursday. These are the same kind of state-spanning bands of wet air responsible for dropping 32 trillion gallons of water on the state in January.īut in a bit of irony that Alanis Morissette might appreciate, the coming rain could actually complicate things in drought-plagued California by melting its snowpack too early. More atmospheric rivers are due to wash over us this weekend. We have more water than we know what to do with - and more is on the way.California has two seemingly contradictory and potentially devastating problems:
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