Thursday Top of the Scroll: Storms packing rain, snow to return to California, northwestern US
All weather patterns must come to an end, and the setup that allowed warm and dry conditions over much of the Northwest and limited rainfall in California in recent days will wind down later this week as a new train of storms lines up over the northern Pacific, AccuWeather meteorologists say. The storm train is not as intense as some episodes over the winter, but with a breakdown of high pressure over the Northwest and a southward shift in the jet stream from the Pacific into North America, there will be more opportunities for rain and mountain snow as well as locally heavy precipitation that can slow travel on highways and airports. … While a blockbuster snowfall is not anticipated in the Sierra Nevada, the change to snow will be more deliberate and add to the snowpack.
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