Atmospheric river to wallop California as study finds storms getting worse | California
A strong river storm was assigned to the atmosphere on Wallop California On Wednesday evening, he was mired in large areas of the country with rain and brought several feet from snow to the mountains – the latest in a wave of intense storms that show new research worse.
A large part of North California was under a warning of the winter storm due to the stormy winds and thick snow in expecting that the national weather service (NWS) said it would lead to “impossible conditions of travel.” Severe thunderstorms and strong winds were predicted throughout the San Francisco Bay area Reports.
NWS has released an hour in a large part of southern California until Thursday noon. The area also expected dangerous driving conditions as well as flood flows on roads and debris flows in areas affected by recent forest fires. Los Angeles has placed several areas under the evacuation warnings and orders due to the risk of debris flows from heavy rains, and announced the closure of many roads, including part of the Pacific Coast road.
Meanwhile, the state’s emergency services office announced that it had sent more than 400 workers, including fast water rescue teams and search and rescue employees in urban areas, throughout the state in preparation for the storm. The authorities advised the population to get a ready -made Goa bag and prepare for the power outage.
Air rivers, long and relatively tight -toning tapes play water vapor, which take moisture from the ocean and get rid of huge amounts of rain, a decisive role in renewing state cabinets and snow rights. But they were also behind some of the most destructive storms in California, including the harsh weather that killed about 20 people 2023It increases in frequency and intensity.
A comprehensive study of weather rivers in the current issue of the Climate Magazine has found that the most famous heavy winds and heavy winds in California and other parts of the West have become larger, more humid and more frequent in the past 45 years with the warmth of the world.
The study said that the weather rivers increased in the area that they soak by 6 % to 9 % since 1980, and the frequency increased by 2 % to 6 % and is slightly moist than before.
Scientists have long foretold that with the climatic crisis caused by burning coal, oil and gas makes air warmer, it carries more moisture, which means that it is a larger and more famous atmosphere in the future. The new research indicates that the wet future is already here.
This does not mean that everything is necessarily due to climate change. We did not study this, but it is widely lined with some expectations on how [atmospheric rivers] It will change in the warming atmosphere, “according to the main author of the study, Lixi Henny, a atmosphere at North Carolina University who conducted her research while she was at NASA.
Henny said what happened already “is still small for the changes we think will happen” in a warmer world in the future.
While weather rivers can bring rains that are intensified by the drought -stricken places, they are often dangerous. Last year, a series of weather rivers caused hundreds of mud collapses and killed several people in California. In the 1960s, California had to come out of its capital from Sacramento due to the floods that caused the river in the atmosphere.
Hene said that these events occur throughout the United States and the world, although they are not recognized at times as rivers in the atmosphere. The Joy River was brought in New England in 2023 feet of rain and 50 miles per hour. A 2020 atmosphere river threw 99 inches of snow to Alaska.
