“Significant Atmospheric River” AKA: Pineapple Express

We are starting to see tangible indications of a significant atmospheric river impacting California sometime in the Sunday-Tuesday period next week. Of course we are pretty far out, but a non-trivial number of our simulations show this scenario of a series of warm heavy precipitation storms moving into the Sierra and western Nevada.

from the Forest Service e mail.

OK  OK  I will try to translate  “it’s gonna rain cats and dogs”  the lakes gonna fill up and there will be flash floods.

Or

get on the ark  2by2