Southern California Weather Authority
A weaker system on Wednesday into Wednesday night will make way for the strongest system in three years to hit Southern California on Friday and this storm system will bring a lot of flooding, being the region has been so dry and thus people in the flood prone zones need to start preparing sandbags and doing flood preparations along the hillsides.
The system, currently out in the Pacific, has a strong southerly jet influence to it. The storm is set to hit on Friday. Upper divergence and jet dynamics suggest that heavy rain is likely south and west of the mountains, bringing in over two inches of rain in a short period of time, with higher amounts in the foothills. The system will be the strongest in three years.
Severity for thunderstorms is being looked into, however some of these heavy rainfall rates that will cause flooding might come with severe thunderstorm dynamics, in-which Southern California Weather Authority.com is fully capable of handling.
Here’s hoping it will turn out to be a nice slow steady rain.
I know NASA is somewhat evil, but I think their satellite weather patterns work just fine. According to NASA satellite, southern california will get sprinkles at best today then nothing after that. Check out the link below, the clouds are weak.. Check out Oregon where I am..the clouds are more massive and its not even raining..These clouds have very little water in them. You dont need sandbags. Look at Sacramento, it has the most clouds and they are predicting less than an inch of rain..these clouds are weak.
http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/post-goes
It came down in buckets for a few hours late last night. Stopped early this morning before sunrise.
We’ll see what # 2 looks like in the next few hours.