A whole lot of water is falling on California today 🌧️ 🌧️ ☔️☔️☔️ What you should know ⤵️
The counties south of L.A. should largely see 1 inch of rain or less.A"Pineapple Express" is a strong atmospheric river pulling moisture from the tropics, which turns into heavy rainfall and snow.
It could also create even more weight on overtaxed roofs — we have more on that issue and how you can reduce your risks in out story:That said, the snowpack is so deep in our mountains that it should absorb the 2 inches or so of rain that could fall over 24 hours. Lower elevation snow that's been sticking around in our foothills will likely melt away.
Our snowpack is at nearly 200% of normal across the Sierra and L.A.’s gotten drenched with 184% of the rain we’d expect in an average year. All the precipitation has now had a significant effect on longstanding drought conditions in the state.
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