Too Much of a Good Thing? Possibility of Flooding When ‘Atmospheric River’ Rolls Over Emerald Triangle Tomorrow
A HIGH Risk of Excessive Rainfall is in effect for portions of Northern California tomorrow. A strong atmospheric river will produce rainfall of 8-10 inches in the region, leading to significant and life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, particularly over burn scar areas. [Graphic and caption from the National Weather Service]
The National Weather Service in Eureka reports, “An atmospheric river is expected to move through early Sunday. This will bring heavy rain and gusty winds throughout NW California…River levels are expected to rise rapidly, so make sure to watch out for rising water!”
Up to six inches of rain is expected for some areas and this could cause serious problems for residents located near some of this year’s wildfire burn scars. “Low lying areas, creeks, streams, culverts, and portions of urban areas may experience flooding due to heavy rainfall,” reports the National Weather Service. ” Heavily burned areas may have an increased risk of flash flooding.”
Late today (Saturday around 11 p.m. until Sunday around 2 p.m. for many areas) expect high winds with gusts up to 50 mph.
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Bring it on!!!
So far Im watching the ground just drink up the water. Very little standing water.
Pretty awesome!
Anyone else noticing that in their area?
Hard to believe the water table is high enough to flood, we shall see!
Sunday sounds like a great day to not drive anywhere.
Yeah, bring it! Feels like the old days (moved here in 1990). It’s supposed to rain here in the winter. Like, a lot.
The ground can only drink so much as you put it. Maybe if they keep the damn dams closed we will be alright
There are no flood control dams on the Eel
Believe it, if we get enough rain all at once. The very dry conditions do permit much of the rain to soak in, but a real gully-washer can flood, even after this very dry year. For sure, 2 or 3 inches after a long, wet winter will really bring the water up, once the ground is saturated. ‘1973 was monsoonal in Nov., ‘76-7 was record drought, ‘80-3 was flooding. 1860-5;was a massive drought-flood cycle (or vice versa). On and on. Expect more extreme weather as the global climate changes.
The weather cycles havent changed here at all.
Does anyone have storm rainfall totals? Just curious how much we’ve got. Thanks in advance.
The bulk of the rain went south to sf,marin, sonoma and mendo. Not a big deal north of Cape mendocino.
A Lot At Once is on par with climate change impacts the world over. Too dry, too wet, too hot, too cold. Too much, the porridge is moving forward. Thanks, American Way, the world over. Bon ape-teet.
That’s funny that you think a higher power is responsible
Funny is you thinking I think a higher power is responsible
I’m sure the liberals are responsible for too much rain and flooding, the conservatives are responsible for not enough rain and droughts! And I bet if you go back through history the drought/flood records will coincide with who was in office at the time… Seriously! (No, I’m just joking, only Mother Nature to blame).
Cute, but no. Climate change, man making the (cough) upmost of it, is real. And, coming for you. 😂
Every possible weather condition is climate change… we get it!! Was it also our fault in 64?
Clear cutting? Or did all those trees just up and move?
This very large storm came from all the way across the Pacific Ocean! It did not start here nor is it due to a clear cut forest here.
I see you didn’t cite Folsom Lake, Lake Oroville, Lake Shasta just to name a few, the PG&E dams on the Eel river, the diverted 30%+ Eel river water diverted to the wine industry. And let’s not forget all of the water that is diverted to the AG corporations in the middle of the State. They pumped water INTO the ground and then in dry years sold the water for a cool 41 million dollars as they did in 2020. 100% of that water came from Northern California.
Chris was attributing excessive rain with climate change. Not dams or clear cutting or ag, just rain
Nick, in 2006 Rupert Murdoch (owns FOX NEWS, remember) filed paperwork that acknowledges a human-caused climate-change emergency. Get what I’m saying: the employer and political-pulse director of all those FOX NEWS personalities and programs, all those denying climate change, were directing those shows to BS their viewers.
I haven’t watched Fox News since they helped throw the election
Get over it! He lost…fair and square! The sane, rational republicans didn’t want a maniacal narcissist running the country, he was an embarrassment so they didn’t vote for him!
They knew, that, then, at least.
Tonight on FOX:Top News Story…Climate Change: The world continues to warm from emissions of greenhouse gasses, pot growers in Humboldt County California contribute highest in the state!
Donates to the cause yet complains about climate change…so hippy-critical!
Don’t get hung up in 64. Too narrow a thought process.
I all ready asked La Niña to bless us, but to please not flood us out. Will light another candle. There is also a high surf warning. Do not go out on the jetties or stand on the beach to watch the big waves. The waves like that
La Nina is what we have had for the last year. Cool, dry and windy. This looks more like El Nino. What the weather service says is happening 6000 miles away is not necessarily what happens here.
Forecasters say there’s a nearly 90% chance that La Niña conditions will be in place from December 2021 to February 2022. La Niña will be joining us for the winter again, according to federal forecasters.Oct 15, 2021 T La Niña is coming to the Pacific Northwest. In the past, that has sometimes meant snow. How much? It varies. No one can make any exact predictions, but the blog says some snow is “a good bet” this winter. The Pacific Northwest is more likely to be wetter than normal in the late fall and early winter with the presence of a well-established La Niña
It was la nina last year and the storms stayed north. Hopefully they will continue to drift a little further south this year.
I agree it is a good bet there will be some snow this winter.
Trying to remember last time it snowed down to sea level. Oh yea 2019
Fires, floods, the plague. “Repent ye sinners the end is near” -God-
“Falsely attributed quotes are the plague of the internet” -Ben Franklin
Exactly so, there is No “GOD”!!!
Must suck to be You!
Not in the least!!! “GOD” & religion in general, are just constructs to help keep the masses in line!!!
Jesus was a pretty cool guy, if you read what he was actually all about.
The Bible (The Best Selling Work of Fiction Ever Published) has his history all wrong!!!
The biblical Jesus was pretty cool, but his message was distorted and used for immense evil by too many of his adherents. Not all, but way too many. First 400 years it was: stay mellow and loving, demand a free conscience and religious freedom. Get tortured, burned, fed to lions,
Then Christianity becomes the official religion and stays mellow for a century or so then starts persecuting, torturing, and killing non-believers like Jews, Muslims, and anyone else not in line. search: Charlemagne who converted most of Europe at the point of a sword. Downhill from there. Catholics vs. Protestants, Native Americans forced into dungeons and slave labor all for Jesus, Quite a mess. Many now say that satanic Trump is saving Christianity.
Anyway, that’s an encapsulated view, easily documented, about what went wrong. I love Christians who “get it” on the love, forgiveness, social justice, and mercy Jesus. But too many just use “Jesus” as an excuse to be hateful.
Being a “cool guy” does not make you a god 😁
Same drivel, then they’ll spout science. All when getting dumbfounded when shown data about God’s existence, ask any true OG and you’ll get the truth, ask a power and get the drivel.
Man, is the constuct.
Says actually no one in a foxhole. But he it’s fun to play tough guy, I used to console many of the wicked and they always cry the same.
“Repent sinners, the end of the world is neigh!” -Nostradamus- He stole the quote from God and She is mad.
Was Nostradamus a horse?
nigh. I could delete the comment and edit it but your reply is funny so I’ll live with neigh.
Good one!!
🤣
There have been fires, floods, famine and plagues since the beginning of time.
Wrong!
More like the earth is defending itself against us parasites (humans).
The earth is a living organism that has “self corrected” after volcano’s eruptions (Krakatoa), meteor impacts (Yucatán) and meteor air bursts (Tunguska Siberia).
First dry out (drought) the pest, then burn (wildfires) the pests, then flood (washout) the pests and then freeze (remember Texas last winter) the pests. Then repeat until pest numbers are lower……..
Mother Nature always bats last…
Bats. I get it. As in covid bats to rid the pests.
Never do ” The Voice”.
Don’t you know that?
Dog will saves our souls.
“When you saw only one set of prints in the sand, it was then that I was fetching a stick.” – an excerpt from Pawprints.
Woof
Is it coincidence that 1 human day = 7 dog days? I think not. Ever notice at the end of a long day (equating to the 7th day for Dog) of play that Dog rests? Kinda makes you say, hmm. Doesn’t it?
I know that my eternal reward will be many many Scooby Snacks.
Be nice to capture and store a bunch of this excess rainfall during the rainy half of the year.
This is the mother of all storms. This rain event is of biblical proportions.
So if this storm wimps out who can I complain to ?
Not much so far along the coast
Waiting, as ever, for “approval” 😂
Just another storm, never seen weather so dramatized, think I’ll work out it all day tomorrow to just prove how weak it is. Rivers are empty, we’ll see how much they rise , 5 ft, crack me up.
You nailed it!
I know that It doesn’t match the the global warming narrative, but the summer of 1964 was one of the driest summers that we ever had, then in December we had one of the worse floods that we’ve had in a hundred years. It goes against all predictions, but it still shivers my spine. Creepy!
It looks like we are in the slight risk yellow area.
This early in the season even that much rain wont cause river flooding. Might go bank to bank but that’s what the old timers called a freshet. Drops fast this early too. Nothings soggy yet.
A report of 50 inches in a few days back in 64’, Ernie ! We received 5 inches overnight in the last storm .The weatherman out of eureka channel 3 called for an inch 😂 .That five inches sure brought the river up fast ,50 inches is definitely unimaginable.
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https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2019/12/26/from-the-journal-archives-when-the-water-rose-in-1964
“The Dec. 19-23 storm was of unprecedented intensity in the region,” states a California Department of Water Resources report, noting that Ettersburg on the Mattole River registered a staggering 50 inches of rain during the period, including 15 inches on Dec. 22 alone. Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area recorded 22 inches of rain in a single 24-hour period during the onslaught. (That’s more rain than Eureka recorded last year.)
https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2019/12/26/from-the-journal-archives-when-the-water-rose-in-1964
It wasn’t until a few years ago that I learned the Christmas floods also severely impacted Oregon (and even parts of Washington and Nevada!). 18 people died in Oregon. It’s kind of weird, though, because people who were alive and living in Oregon then always talk about the Columbus Day storm, but never mention the floods a couple of years later.
In Humboldt, it’s like the before times and then the changes afterwards. Places I used to go to as a child disappeared. Some forever.
Found the wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_flood_of_1964
That was a crazy year for a little kid (me). Crescent City got hammered earlier from the Alaska earthquake and then the floods.
But from what I read (I wasn’t born yet) it snowed a bunch in November in the mountains before the big rain in December. When was the last time it snowed in the mountains much in November? Weather is always unpredictable- but from what I’ve seen in my short life- it snows less in the mountains these days, from what I remember from my childhood in the 80s. And our pond freezes over way less often than it used to.
A we had a couple feet of snow up in the hills a couple of thanksgivings ago. This was at about 3000ft.. didn’t last longer than the weekend but fun to play in
I certainly was not here, but records and reports suggest that ‘64 was a perfect storm where a big snowpack in Nov., like you said, was hit by a huge atmospheric river in Dec., giving a perfect deluge. That’s allegedly why it was worse on big rivers with high mountain watersheds full of snow while 1955 was said to be mostly rain which hit all streams with similar ferocity, big or small. 1860-4 was a lollapaloozer and that was the dawn of heavy industry with far fewer people in the world.
I didn’t know that it was such a dry summer that year, Ernie.
Thanks for that info.
Thanks for the info on warmer weather, Ernie. Last 20 years seems a tad warmer. Still hard to grow tomatoes in the fog.
Just in case someone hasn’t seen this -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goAnyAcLYKo&ab_channel=GregBeaumont
There’s rain coming! Everybody better get the vaccine!
Of course, get the vaccine. covid and flu. It’s the 21st century, Thanks for the reminder! Way to go.
Man everything is so fear based these days… What are we gonna do. Get a rain vax?
I’ve been hospitalized, I’ve been in agony, I have had surgeries and my life threatened with early demise. Get vaxed, being sick sucks. I’m glad you have been fortunate enough to avoid agonizing disease thus far. Good for you. Keep it going!
Oh wow I could tell. My gout is killing me. It even hit me in the hands this time.
Stop eating after 6. Go to bed hungry. Every night no break. Cut a lemon in half, squeeze it and add a pinch baking soda and water. Drink it every day. Reduce meat consumption. No beer. Ever
It will help. I’m gout free for now 8 months
It was like that all day up on the hill near alder point super windy and lot of rain
Ah yes! The humboldt weather experts. My dad told me when I was just a sprout that if I kept on lying, I’d grow up to be a weatherman.
Um, today’s forecast tech ain’t yer dad’s tech era.
Good thing Governor Newsom had all that water storage built.
5 inches since last night at 6. Pretty good rain. Never seen the ground so thirsty though.
Where?
Got me up early. Strong winds around 4:45 this morning. Lots of dead wood hitting my roof. My covered deck is completely wet- first time I’ve seen that happen. Glad a tree didn’t come down.