02/05/2024

Atmospheric River Lashes California with Heavy Rain and Wind

There is a chance the weather pattern could retrograde

The firehose of intense rainfall that’s been battering Southern California since Sunday could recede and then target the region yet again, according to climate scientist Daniel Swain — in a concerning pattern he called the "windshield-wiper" effect.

"There is a chance that this atmospheric river and associated rain and moisture plume will actually retrograde,” said Swain, who studies extreme weather and climate change at the University of California at Los Angeles. This means the storm could move back over the same areas across Los Angeles and even Ventura counties that have been hard-hit over the past 36 hours.

If that happens, areas that have already been inundated by record-breaking rainfall will get thrashed again by torrential downpours “without much of a break in between.”

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