Record-breaking rain soaked parts of California in one of the strongest storms to hit the West Coast, as the Northeast issued warnings ahead of the season’s first nor’easter.
NS National Weather Service Some reports of rain with 11 inches at the base of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County on Monday afternoon in the San Francisco Bay Area were called “shocking.”
Downtown San Francisco, with 4.02 inches of rain, saw its fourth warmest calendar day on Sunday, going back to the record Gold Rush. It was the hottest October day ever for the city, the weather service said.
In the northeastern US, the governor of new Jersey And New York Emergency was declared and New York City issued travel advice through Tuesday afternoon.
“Take this seriously,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.
A flash flood watch is in effect from 5 p.m. Tuesday, and while 2 to 4 inches of rain are not expected to cause catastrophic and deadly flooding, he urged basement apartment dwellers to plan.
Over the weekend in California, a hurricane system plummeted to a barometric pressure of 945.2 mb, making it the strongest storm to affect the Pacific Northwest on record. For perspective, this is equivalent to the central pressure you would see with a strong storm.
In fact, California’s Mammoth Mountain saw gusts of 111 mph.
The figures for Sacramento are even more shocking. Sacramento received 5.44 inches of rain on Sunday, making it their wettest day in history (or any calendar month). Making it even more remarkable is that the record came on the heels of a dry streak. 212 consecutive days without measurable rainfall. That just ended on October 18th.
This example of a deluge from drought, also known as rain instability, is exactly that. Expected to be more frequent in California With climate change, a moisture-laden Pacific storm system brings a brief period of record rainfall in the midst of extreme drought due to record high temperatures.
Two people were killed when a tree fell on their vehicle in Preston, Washington state, near Seattle, on Sunday afternoon. NBC affiliate King of Seattle reported.
If there’s any good news that came out of the mighty westerly storm, it’s that Dixie Fire is 100 percent contained And Lake Auroville rose almost 10 feet This summer due to beneficial rainfall, the Dixie Fire became the second largest wildfire in California, eclipsed only by the August Complex Fire of 2020. At the same time, Lake Oroville fell to an all-time low, shutting down the power plant for the first time in history. .
On the other side of the country, parts of Virginia and North Carolina saw strong thunderstorms, and the Northeast and New England prepared for the formidable Nor’Easter earlier of the season.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency effective Monday at 8 p.m., which allows the state’s resources to be deployed. New York City Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Monday night because of the risk of heavy rainfall in New York City as well as the capital region and other parts of the state.
Flash flood watches covered a swath of the country Monday evening from eastern Pennsylvania to Massachusetts.
From Sunday night through Monday morning, the storm moving toward the Mid-Atlantic produced suspected tornadoes in Missouri and Illinois.
The National Weather Service confirmed Monday that the tornado, which destroyed and damaged buildings in the Fredericktown, Missouri, area, was an EF-3. A tornado that traveled from St. Mary’s, Missouri to Chester, Illinois, was ranked as EF-2.
In the Northeast, the heaviest rain was expected to begin Monday night for New York City and Tuesday night for Boston.
New York City emergency management officials warned that up to 4 inches of rain could fall in the area, with some locally high amounts possible. Winds are expected to reach 40 mph on Tuesday.
Forecasters for the Boston area said rain could become heavy with strong and destructive winds in central and eastern Massachusetts on Tuesday evening.
And it is expected to experience extreme weather over the next few days not only in the bookends of the country, but also in the middle of the country.
Eight million people are at risk for a severe storm in the central and southern plains on Tuesday. Hail as large as a softball would be the main risk, followed by winds of more than 70 mph and damage to individual tornadoes.
On Wednesday, this storm system will shift to the east, posing a severe tornado threat to parts of the Gulf Coast. This risk will include 12 million people in the metro areas of Houston, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama.