He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain.
"Excessive rainfall over already saturated soils will result in rapid rises on creeks, streams and rivers as well as flooding in urban areas," forecasters said in a report.Įxcept for the impressive record heat in Europe, "which is yet another example of the manifestation of human-induced climate change," Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini said he finds nothing too unusual.FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in this fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza’s Box of Saints. Schools were closed Wednesday in the San Francisco area as more than 8,000 sandbags were given out in anticipation of extensive flooding. Roads and levees in California were washed out early in the week. And California, where there's been a more than 20-year megadrought that worsens wildfires, is getting much-needed rain and snow - too much of it, actually. This extreme weather has "a silver lining," especially with the record heat in Europe in January easing winter heating fuel crunches caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, said Colorado meteorologist Bob Henson of Yale Climate Connections. this turn of the new year could almost make you forget that it's the height of winter." Swiss weather service MeteoSuisse quipped on its blog: ". In Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday it broke a January record at 63 degrees Fahrenheit and it was 64.2 Fahrenheit in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, according to extreme weather tracker Maximiliano Herrera. "Climate change adds more fuel to the locomotive engine."Ģ00 cyclists, some dressed in costumes, ride their bikes Saturday on the ski slopes during the start of the 33rd edition of the 'GP St-Sylvestre', a new-year snow mountain bike race, in the alpine resort of Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland.Ī weather station in Delemont, Switzerland, on the French border, smashed its January record with an average daily temperature of nearly 65 Fahrenheit on the first day of the year. "I'd describe the jet stream and bomb cyclones as a runaway Pacific freight train loaded with moisture," said Maue, former chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Trump administration. The storms dip over the warm subtropics "and create a conveyor belt of of moisture to strafe the West Coast of the U.S," Maue said. The jet stream now is unusually wavy, said Maue and Woodwell Climate Research Center climate scientist Jennifer Francis. And on certain parts of the waves are storms where the atmospheric pressure drops low and quickly, called bomb cyclones, that are quite wet, and they travel on atmospheric waves that transport the weather called the jet stream. It is creating literal waves in the weather systems that ripple across the globe.
#La weather driver#
Maue said the big driver is a three-year La Nina - natural temporary cooling of the equatorial Pacific Ocean that alters world weather patterns - that just won't quit. Weather Weather conditions across the U.S. "All the ingredients are in place for two weeks of wild weather especially in the Western U.S.," private meteorologist Ryan Maue said in an email. And this is after frigid air escaped the Arctic to create a Christmas mess for much of the United States. East and record high temperatures to Europe as the Northern Hemisphere on Wednesday was more than 2.6 degrees hotter than the late 20th century average. New Year's brought shirtsleeve weather to the U.S. Much of what's causing problems worldwide is coming out of a roiling Pacific Ocean, transported by a wavy jet stream, experts said.Īt least one highway in drought-mired California looked more like a river because of torrential rain from what is technically called an atmospheric river of moisture. In a world getting used to extreme weather, 2023 is starting out more bonkers than ever and meteorologists are saying it's natural weather weirdness with a bit of help from human-caused climate change. Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group via AP Costello drove her car on the flooded street thinking she could make it, but it stalled in the two feet of water. 31 on Astrid Drive in Pleasant Hill, Calif. Nurse Katie Leonard uses a kayak to bring supplies to Patsy Costello, 88, as she sits trapped in her vehicle Dec.
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