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MacDerfus t1_j32kt5u wrote

The drought is finally using its vacation days

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DukeOfGeek t1_j32va2e wrote

Any chance any of this will make it over the Rockies and hit the Midwest?

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redyellowblue5031 t1_j32duby wrote

It’s an active pattern right now, and looks like it’ll stay that way for at least another week. Perhaps not as strong as this most recent storm, but Californians shouldn’t let their guard down.

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Supersafethrowaway t1_j33pvne wrote

meh this happened 4 years ago in January and it was way worse then

edit: man this got a lot of downvotes lol. Why you mad? It was bad then, nowhere comparable to today.

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blinkertx t1_j32eul8 wrote

San Jose resident here, the winds were very strong at times, but I don’t think the storm ever materialized quite the way some had feared. Roads are wet and tree branches are scattered around, but life is moving on even with continued rain.

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yellowsm42 t1_j32ipks wrote

It isnt the few hours of rain we should worry about but the sustained days of rain ahead.

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blinkertx t1_j32g0c1 wrote

Perhaps, but even the mountains just to my west didn’t get nearly as much rain as the prior weekend per multiple weather apps I was tracking. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ no matter, let’s not sensationalize this and just take the win that things weren’t as bad as they could have been.

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enokidake t1_j32jf66 wrote

SoCal here. I live maybe 30 minutes from the desert and it's been raining on and off for week and right now it is pouring and the streets, and my backyard, are flowing with water.

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Graf_Orlock t1_j33bftu wrote

Sausalito reporting in. LOTS of downed tree branches and trees (50' tree in Corte Madera down), lots of people without power from our town on up to San Rafael. Minor mudslides around, including a nasty one that took out one of the pedestrian stairs up the hill to the residential area.

We've been out of power since 5PM last night.

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CottaBird t1_j33ob38 wrote

From South Sacramento Valley, over new years, we lost the horse fence and an old equipment barn collapsed. The water from creek at the back of our farm reached almost a half mile out from its normal path. We lost the horse fence (again), but it was just propped to get it back up. Our road was blocked by a fallen tree on one end and by flooding on the other. The flooding is back after this last storm, so nobody is driving down the road, but it wasn’t as bay as I thought it would be. We lost power for a few hours NYE night, but not last night. Our big issue is pruning. If it’s pouring and flooded, we can’t get out into the field.

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Amazingawesomator t1_j3225pb wrote

I will break my own rule and not make fun of the title with a dragula comment because the slamming was not done to a person. Thoughts?

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Subrisum t1_j323cqg wrote

The way headlines are written these days, I thought the cyclone was making some criticism about California and killed the child in order to make its rhetorical point.

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fliptout t1_j32pzja wrote

Cyclone eviscerates drought in scathing hit piece.

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Subrisum t1_j32q9qa wrote

Meteorologists hate you if you use this one weird trick

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silashoulder t1_j33ag57 wrote

Live through the ditches.
Laugh through the witches.
Love in the back of my Dragula.

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boxer_dogs_dance t1_j32udhg wrote

East Bay here. We had it easy compared to the north bay. I've definitely seen storms with worse flooding but I guess it is too early to judge the impact. I feel horrible for the family in Occidental who lost their child.

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NightWriter500 t1_j33dkag wrote

Yeah after all the “Stormpocalypsegeddon ‘23!!”headlines, I expected a little more. My sister-in-law pulled her kid from daycare and her spouse from work to hunker down during the storm and… it rained for like an hour yesterday. Today for like a couple hours. It’s not even raining anymore. Having lived through a couple hurricanes on the east coast, this just isn’t worth all the frenzy.

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Hay-blinken t1_j34qv7d wrote

Capitola beach is pretty much gone. And Aptos got jacked up too. In the South bay. I love those beach towns. Pretty wild surge. West county Sonoma can get so much rain.

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AbortedMunk t1_j32napt wrote

Mother Nature asked Cali if it was thirsty, then threw a pitch of water in their faces. Brilliant

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Pawneewafflesarelife t1_j32m26l wrote

Thought cyclones were called hurricanes in USA?

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bazz_and_yellow t1_j32qvly wrote

Cyclones are just intense weather events. I think you are confusing typhoons vs hurricanes.

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ImperialRedditer t1_j332twy wrote

Some parts of the world (Southern Hemisphere and Indian Ocean) also call tropical cyclones cyclones.

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Pawneewafflesarelife t1_j3air3z wrote

I was going off this Wikipedia article:

>In the Atlantic and the northeastern Pacific oceans, a tropical cyclone is generally referred to as a hurricane (from the name of the ancient Central American deity of wind, Huracan), in the Indian and south Pacific oceans it is called a cyclone, and in the northwestern Pacific it is called a typhoon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone

I'm still fuzzy on the terms - moved to Australia and they are different from the terms I learned in the states.

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fliptout t1_j32q92k wrote

This was definitely not anywhere near a hurricane. Sustained winds of 20-30mph with gusts up to 50--and those probably on mountain peaks.

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FauxShizzle t1_j32sxnj wrote

Gusts of 90 in the peaks in the bay area, 50 mph wind above 1000 ft. Still not a hurricane but not something to fuck around in.

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FauxShizzle t1_j33ii5a wrote

LA county alone has 9.83 million people in it, almost the population of all of Michigan. The logistics of dealing with unexpected weather events is difficult to compare between the two regions.

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Jbow89 t1_j33ewdk wrote

I always thought they were called hurricanes if they were in the Atlantic Ocean and cyclones in the Pacific Ocean.

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FifteenthPen t1_j33j4ux wrote

It's more complicated than that, and mostly has to do with what people in a given region usually call them. Storms in the Atlantic and northeast Pacific (headed for North America or Europe) are hurricanes, storms in the west Pacific and east Indian Ocean (headed for east/southeast Asia) are typhoons, and storms in the south Pacific and west Indian Ocean (headed for Australia, the Middle East, or east Africa) are called cyclones.

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ParticularRiver8064 t1_j33l6l9 wrote

What you are referring to are tropical cyclones. They are called typhoons in the Pacific Ocean in the northern hemisphere, and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. They also have other names in other areas of the Southern Hemisphere, like tropical cyclone in Australia.

Though what you see impacting California is an extratropical cyclone. Extratropical refers to how they usually form outside the tropics in the extratropical regions of earth. They are very common but can range wildly in intensity.

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MountainsEcho t1_j33jj57 wrote

At least the reservoirs were low to catch all that water

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beebeereebozo t1_j3631sc wrote

Terminology must have changed. Growing up in California, these were just normal winter storms. Although I seem to remember colder temps and lower snowline.

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Here_is_to_beer t1_j339dyz wrote

Looks like nature wants to start California over again. Burn it all down, wash it out. Very Tool-esque. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHcmnowjfrQ

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kiticus t1_j33vtzc wrote

Fuck the dysfunctional, insecure, actresses!

-- Mother Nature

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