Thread on the #AtmosphericRiver event slamming #California – some key changes are taking place with the system.
For starters, Los Angeles downtown has another 1.5 to 2.5 inches of rain coming, leading to widespread 8 inch totals.
The city averages 2.99" of rain during February.
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A NEW low is developing offshore of southern California, and will move overhead before shifting into the Great Basin of Nevada.
That's problematic for beleaguered Los Angeles and San Diego.
That will cause precipitation to expand westward again toward Santa Barbara and potentially increase in intensity too. Another 12-18 hours of rain in Los Angeles before the atmospheric river finally scoots east.
It also brings heavy mountain snows in Nevada.