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2/9/14, "Storm brings impressive rain, snow to California," AP via Sacramento Bee
"The first significant storm to hit
Northern California in 14 months produced impressive amounts of rain and
snow over the weekend, National Weather Service forecasters said
Sunday. But they cautioned that it would take weeks of similar storms to end the state's immediate drought worries.
A
winter-storm warning that was not due to expire until early Monday
remained in effect in the greater Lake Tahoe region, where estimates
indicated the mighty lake itself had received 13.5 billion gallons of
water in a 24-hour period that ended Sunday morning, said meteorologist
Scott McGuire in Reno. After subsisting on man-made snow for much of
the season, Tahoe's ski resorts gratefully embraced the more than three
feet of new snow they received over two days, although the gift
heightened the risk of avalanches.
"This event, while it certainly isn't going to take us out of the
drought, we couldn't have asked for a better storm," McGuire said. "We
are seeing very, very impressive rainfall and snowfall amounts."
Parts
of the northern San Francisco Bay area saw sizable amounts of rain
along with flash-flood warnings. The community of Woodacre, which has
the highest base elevation in Marin County, received more than 10 inches
since the storm moved in Friday, while Sebastopol in Sonoma County
received more than 8 inches and downtown San Francisco more than two
inches, said Austin Cross, a National Weather Service forecaster
meteorologist in Monterey.
The storm, powered by a warm,
moisture-packed system from the Pacific Ocean known as a Pineapple
Express, was expected to bring another eight inches of rain and snow to
the Lake Tahoe area on Sunday, but less than an inch more rain to the
Bay Area before it moves east and ends overnight. Forecasts for the week
showed a possibility of rain returning to the northern part of the
state Wednesday.
"Even this fairly good amount of rain is not
enough to catch us up to what is normal for this time of year," Cross
said. "It certainly helps, but we're not there yet.""
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