Imagine a long river of water vapor in the sky coming into the West Coast. It is how Marty Ralph, the director of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, described the storm event threatening California at the moment.
Forecasters warn that the storm that follows on Sunday is likely to be the strongest of the entire storm train and will undergo rapid intensification as another bomb cyclone. https://t.co/Gw8iEHoGia pic.twitter.com/2D4mFCG89W
— Breaking Weather by AccuWeather (@breakingweather) October 23, 2021
West Coast braces for simultaneous 'bomb cyclone' and 'atmospheric river' https://t.co/epqPO4Dkv7 pic.twitter.com/Re2CsxSbhN
— CNN Weather Center (@CNNweather) October 22, 2021