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Life & Events > Where Does Your Weather Come From?
 

Where Does Your Weather Come From?

The following story is about a big storm in California right now. It'll probably move over the Sierra Nevada to us in Las Vegas, then hopefully the mountains of Colorado, but even more so, I hope it crosses the continental divide and reaches the plains of northern Colorado.

It has been a dry winter in my home town, and the farmers badly need the moisture for the winter wheat crop, but it might already be too late.

Anyhow, it will be interesting to see what path this storm takes and whether it makes its way to your house over the next week.

Series of storms threatens Calif. with flooding

"A series of winter storms bearing down on California Saturday was threatening parts of the state with flooding, and officials were posting mudflow warnings in areas recently affected by wildfires ahead of this weekend's rains.

Southern California will be hit especially hard by the storms, and officials were preparing for possible mudslides in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.

"This is one big mother and it's going to have a lot of waves in it," National Weather Service spokesman Bill Hoffer said.

The storms could be the largest system the region has seen in the last decade, the agency said Saturday.

Northern California was expecting 5 inches of rain in places over the weekend, and officials in San Francisco were distributing sandbags to residents.

Southern California could see 2 to 4 inches along the coasts and valleys with triple that in the mountains.

The Central Valley will likely get 1 to 3 inches of rain by Monday with up to 15 inches of rain in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which could prompt flooding in streams and rivers, National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Dudley said Friday.

There already have been reports of flooding across all lanes of the southbound Interstate 5 south of the Antelope Valley Freeway interchange in Southern California, the California Highway Patrol said.

The patrol said Saturday that they'd already seen a fivefold increase in traffic accidents in Los Angeles County because of the weather. There were 264 accidents in comparison to 48 the same time last week.

The wet conditions were expected to last through Thursday morning with the weather drying up in time for the Christmas holidays."



This is from last year. I wish I was there to watch it snow, if it does.

posted on Dec 18, 2010 5:28 PM ()

Comments:

It has been so dry here and no promise of rain in sight.
comment by elderjane on Dec 19, 2010 5:49 PM ()
The high mountains of Colorado are really getting dumped on, and then it's so dry everywhere else. Very strange weather patterns this year.
reply by troutbend on Dec 22, 2010 12:01 PM ()
Hey hey - just wanted to let ya know the cards came from Golden Nugget! WAHOO! We finally got the box open today... Thanks!
comment by kristilyn3 on Dec 19, 2010 12:51 PM ()
Thanks for letting us know. I hope that box is a nice souvenir of Las Vegas for you, it has a nice old world/gambling design, fusion, I call it.
reply by kitchentales on Dec 19, 2010 3:27 PM ()
During last night's last late news weather segment, one of our Northwest Ohio meteorologists discussed this very storm system, which could go in maybe five different directions, according to the computer weather analysis. Very interesting! Keep your eyes peeled!
comment by marta on Dec 19, 2010 9:12 AM ()
It's kind of exciting to get the opportunity to watch the progress of something like this. If it'd been cold enough for snow here in Las Vegas, we'd have enough snow to break tree branches. Mind you, all our trees have leaves on them.
reply by kitchentales on Dec 19, 2010 3:28 PM ()
I have to laugh that my friend, Steve, a California resident, said I should get out of Florida because of the hurricanes. When you read about natural disasters in the news, you realize that almost no area is free of them. There are even tornadoes and hurricanes in New York City although my time there was totally free of harm from these events by luck and location. That is a beautiful snow scene. I'd love to be in a protected cabin with a fireplace and it be snowin' outside.
comment by tealstar on Dec 19, 2010 7:35 AM ()
California is the last place to go to get away from disasters. Heck, just living there is a disaster if you ask me, then add in the wildfires, mud slides, flooding, and smog. Las Vegas is fairly benign weather-wise, but they can have flash floods and of course who wants to live where it is 112 degrees in the summer.
reply by kitchentales on Dec 19, 2010 3:30 PM ()
I always marveled at the variations of winters when I lived out west (30 years.) The gully-washer torrents would flood my street, a cul-de-sac, and sweep away trash bins if it happened on pick-up day! Those bins would clog the drain channels where they plunge beneath the streets and flood neighborhoods!
comment by jondude on Dec 19, 2010 7:29 AM ()
When the wind blows on trash day there are trash cans all over the place, many far from their home. It's a good time to upgrade the old one if a person was so inclined.
reply by kitchentales on Dec 19, 2010 3:31 PM ()
The weather has been changing every year.Some good,some bad.
comment by fredo on Dec 19, 2010 5:26 AM ()
Reading about the drought in the west, I saw somewhere that since 1999 we are experiencing the driest weather in 1000 years (based on tree rings). I'm not going to say global warming, but even if this is a natural weather pattern as the non-believers say, it might as well.
reply by troutbend on Dec 19, 2010 6:16 AM ()
Beautfiful winter scene. Our weather in Oklahoma and Texas is directly affected by the weather on the eastern side of the Rockies. So, I'll be watching this storm as well. We need rain here also.
comment by redimpala on Dec 18, 2010 6:42 PM ()
Maybe the weather patterns will change by spring. Hope so, for everyone's sake.
reply by troutbend on Dec 18, 2010 7:50 PM ()
I'll be watching!
comment by marta on Dec 18, 2010 6:28 PM ()
I think the weather is so interesting, even places like Las Vegas where there isn't a lot of variation.
reply by troutbend on Dec 18, 2010 7:56 PM ()

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