Modest drought relief in NorCal, but SoCal remains relatively dry; El Niño-enhanced storm track on horizon
From the California Weather Blog:
As highlighted in the last post, substantial and widespread precipitation has fallen in recent days across the northern half of California.
Along the North Coast and in Mendocino County, this rainfall has actually set a number of daily precipitation record and caused minor flooding of some rivers and stream. The Eel river, which as readers may remember has run dry multiple times over the course of the ongoing drought–reached and exceeded bankful in a few spots earlier this week. These recent systems have been very moist but dynamically unimpressive, meaning that there has been dramatic orographic enhancement of precipitation (often at the expense of rain-shadowed valleys, where observed precipitation has been quite a bit lighter). As of this writing, most of Northern California had received a near-average amount of precipitation to date, ranging from quite a bit above average in the far north to slightly below average in the south. SoCal, unfortunately, has not seen nearly the same amount of beneficial rainfall as NorCal in recent days. While conditions haven’t been completely dry in the south, nearly all of Southern California remains below average for the season to date. … ”
Continue reading from the California Weather Blog here: Early season rains soak Northern California; statewide storms likely in January
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