The heavy rains on 11-03-2023 are visible on our weather radar.
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Our cloud and precipitation map also gives a good overview of the current weather situation in California and shows the upcoming rainfalls.
Since the beginning of the new year, the US west coast has been affected more frequently by hefty rainfall, as we already reported in our weather news in January. In higher altitudes in California, there has recently been an unusually high snowfall.
In January, California experienced heavy rainfalls due to strong atmospherical rivers hitting the coast. You can find the historical data in our weather archive, available for every place on Earth. At the moment, we can, once again, observe atmospherical rivers which brought lots of rain during the past days and will continue to bring more. At the moment, we observe the collision of cold arctic air from the Northeast and warm moist air from the tropical Pacific. Where these air masses come together, the pressure drops quickly. This leads to intense wind speeds and storms, concentrating the moisture into long, narrow bands of above-average humid air. As soon as this moist air hits the land mass, especially mountainous terrain, they are forced to higher elevations where they produce heavy rainfall or snow.
We expect the storm to hit the coast tonight, as rainfall will continue until Wednesday, as can be seen in our maps.
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