There's an atmospheric River causing flooding in Washington and maybe northern Oregon too but it is supposed to swing south and hit some or all of California starting tomorrow through maybe Saturday.
It isn't supposed to drop much rain but we really haven't had ANY major storms since December anyway. So, the 150% of normal of rain and snow of December is gone now and we are in a serious drought once again (even though the December rains and snows were helpful at the time.
When I drove south from Mt. Shasta I felt bad for the Lakehead area around Shasta Lake and Dam because it seems like a year or more since they had water enough there on Shasta Lake for boats to actually be there. Now (and for the last year or more) there is only a trickle of the Sacramento River where someone maybe if they are lucky might ride an inner tube there (when it was warm enough) without hitting any rocks on the bottom (if they could actually do that which means the clearance would be under 1 foot or less even riding an inner tube down the river at this point. So, the reservoirs and lakes I saw coming south from Mt. Shasta looked about as pathetic as I have ever seen them since the 1950s when I was a child growing up in California then.
So, it likely will be another drought and fire year with more forests and homes burning unless something changes significantly between now and June of this year. It's possible we could get rain into May which happened the last couple of years so I guess we will just have to see what happens here in California and around the world.
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