Blog: An active pattern to continue across California, with mainly beneficial precipitation through mid-March
… The next 10 days or so will feature what is known as a “progressive” pattern across the northeastern Pacific. This means that there will be an alternating sequences of troughs and brief/transient ridges in between, with an overall active/unsettled pattern. In many ways, this is quite a beneficial winter precipitation-generating pattern as there will likely be notable breaks between storms (reducing flood risk) but each individual storm could bring fairly substantial rain and mountain snow (bolstering water supply/snowpack). At the moment, it looks like the precipitation from this upcoming active period should be pretty widespread and well-distributed statewide, with SoCal likely to see 2 separate events with at least widespread moderate (locally heavy) rain during this period.
Other weather and snowpack news across the West:
- Los Angeles Times: Another storm hits L.A., with more wet conditions next week
- myMotherLode: Sierra snowpack faring better following recent storm systems
- National Integrated Drought Information System: News release: Abysmal snowpack defines winter for Arizona and New Mexico
- John Fleck at Inkstain: Blog: Record low March 1 snowpack in some New Mexico watersheds
