Day: January 9, 2017

Atmospheric River event of 7-9 January 2017

by Dan Bikos on January 9th, 2017

A significant atmospheric river affected the west coast on 7-9 January, 2017.  The GOES water vapor imagery shows the development of clouds associated with an approaching trough off the west coast, these clouds advected into the west coast: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/templates/loop_directory.asp?data_folder=training/visit/loops/8jan17_wv&loop_speed_ms=80 and resulted in significant precipitation across California:   at times, we can infer moisture from the Continue Reading

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