Storm passing through in September ???
Hi there,
I'm not one to randomly look up websites and participate in forums unless I have a real interest. Right now, I'm very concerned.
There's a storm passing through Northern California right now. It's bring quite a bit of WIND to San Francisco, but the heavy rain is about 90 miles east of us and traveling south, apparently coming from British Columbia in Canada.
There are so many things wrong with this storm:
1. This storm is WAY early! I'm 35, and have grown up on the Central Coast of CA all my life. I don't ever recall seeing a storm arrive in mid September. Our usual start to the rain is in mid October, give or take a couple weeks.
2. This storm is traveling south, from all accounts. It's extremely unusual for a storm to track directly south from british columbia. The vast vast majority of our storms cross Northern California in an easterly direction (heading south).
3. The rain making clouds are primarily riding the top of the storm. This storm - the rainclouds are dominantly in a northern area of the low pressure system, which, for the west coast, is highly unusual. Most of the time the rain making clouds are dominantly on the eastern side of the low pressure system.
When watching the satellite animation of this storm heading directly south, it feels intrinsically wrong to all the other satellite animations I've watched and studied in my life of storms crossing the west coast. This storm is just wrong. It really breaks the known patterns of west coast storms.
Am I the only one who feels a little shocked by the appearance of this storm and its behavior?
Concerned in San Francisco
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