OT Northern California Weather

I love watching the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasedena. What are the chances it wont be rained out this year?

Good Luck!

I love those triple Doppler. A local station shows it on their forecast in the early evening and it starts right where Lucille lives ~ in the lovely heat and sunshine ~ then zooms up the east coast and shows the snow being dumped on me and Sharon in NB.

#1, you are aware of their Never On Sunday rule (so the parade won't spook churchgoers' horses); the parade will be on Monday this year

#2, in 100+ years, it's only been rained out 9 times

#3, I'm nowhere near Pasadena, so I'm not getting their weather forecasts this far north. Our paper says the L.A. area expects rain tomorrow, but that doesn't help you for what's going to be happening on Monday. Remind me tomorrow to check the paper, or I'm sure LATimes.com has a forecast online.

One of Channel 3's assistant meteorologists lives down near MelissaD. He currently has no electricity, but they have not yet determined whether it's weather-related. MelissaD, you got lights?

They had intended to open Sacramento Weir at 2 PM; then backed it up and did it this morning already. The pull from the weir is so strong at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers that for a while when they open it, the Sacramento runs UPstream. But that will take water levels down by as much as a foot and a half in the first hour, thus reducing flood danger downstream to the coast.

For those of you formerly stationed at Travis AFB, Airbase Pkwy is closed at Texas due to flooding. 80 is closed there due to flooding, too. Further up the hill, 80 is closed at Truckee due to rockslide. If you were planning on NYE in Reno or Tahoe, we hope you are already there, or that you are chartering a plane, because you probably aren't going to make it by car. Actually, if you were planning on NYE in Reno, forget it ... downtown Reno is flooded out. (See TrafficCams at KCRA.com)

Freeways all over the area are closed by flooding, by existing rock/mudslides or by threat of rock/mudslides.

The official word is, don't drive anywhere unless you're told to evacuate.

The rain stopped briefly, but it's coming back. A friend up the hill heard their temp is dropping sufficiently that they'll have snow from the wave this afternoon. I heard snow levels may drop as low as the valley floor at some times. This just hours after I assured my uncle that we here in the valley *never* get snow.

I dunno; I think I'd prefer Hurricane Zeta, which is out there somewhere, but reportedly nowhere as nasty as this.....

Bah humbug, Sheena. Right now, I HATE triple Doppler, and I HATE green on Doppler. And the current Doppler shows all sorts of yellow stuff and lightning strikes, too.

Nature is a mutha. And especially this year.

Why not come on down to sunny Florida? It's 78 f, with no precipitation forecast.

After the last couple of years with such peculiar weather I never thought I would ever be able to say anything remotely like that. Now, can anyone tell me how to make this last???

Lucille

Hey, send some of the rain to us. Phoenix has been 75 days without a drop of rain. There is no snow on the mountains so all the ski areas are not running. We could sure use some of that good old wet stuff---------Clarice in AZ

Jim, I have bad news.... My source in San Diego (~100 miles south of Pasadena) says they have drizzle now and have a "storm" predicted for Monday. Ah, well, if the parade gets rained out, they'll have it the next day.

Because Miss Kitty would want to come, and she'd turn Mr. Puff into shredded taco meat.

Call your local military base.

Travis AFB is pretty well inaccessible -- Airbase Pkwy was flooded, and I-80 was flooded, so they were redirecting traffic onto Texas St., but then a levee broke and now Texas St. is flooded.

So, if your local military base wants to send all their tanker planes, they can scoop up all the water you need, and drain the area around Travis while they're at it.

I-80 has been closed at the top of the Sierras, too, for a rock slide -- predicted 48 hours to reopen. They just closed 50 halfway up the hill. Which means that if you went to Reno/Tahoe for the weekend, you're not coming home any time soon. And downtown Reno is flooded, so the party you went up there for, AIN'T. And, just to make things more fun, my source in Reno tells me that it's snowing now.

Luuuuciiiiiille! How many displaced Californians can you fit on your nice, warm, dry living room floor?

I wish I knew. It's been in the upper 70s for most of December. I think it was 82 last week. I'm certain we'll be hit with a nor'easter any time now and every growing tip of everything will be black and dead. We haven't had a drop of rain since last August. Does it rain in Florida in winter?

Karen, thank you so much for posting all this. I have a son living close to downtown Sacramento, and I called him after your first post this a.m. At that point, he told me that the water stopped just short of his house, that the weir had been opened, and I should stop worrying.

I have twin beds in the guest room, three air mattresses which can be laid on the floor in the studio or living room, and one couch.(and two recliners, if people are desperate!!!) I "know what it means to miss New Orleans", I also know what it is to be driven from home by weather. The temperature right now is about ten degrees higher than it should be - 75F, but is expected to return to normal later in the weeek.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I have a Delta Flood Basement, so the living quarters are what most people would call the second story. Between the bed, the guest bed, the pull-out couch, the air mattress, the old bed mattress (which someone will have to haul up from the basement), and the love seat, we can sleep at least 10 adults and a child before we have to resort to sleeping bags.

If his place gets flooded, my living quarters will still be dry. And I have all those munchies I bought for NYE, which DBF is too sick to partake of, so send him over.

Warm yes, dry I'm never sure. Someone asked if it rains in Florida in Winter. Two short answers cover that question.

1. Yes it rains at least a little almost every day.
2. What's winter??

Happy, Healthy New Year Everyone

Lucille

We at least have *two* seasons: Rainy Season and Dry Season. Having come from a place where they have a lot of that cold, white stuff, I have great difficulty saying "Winter" with a straight face around here, so I prefer saying Rainy Season.

I do much better at saying "cooling trend to 110" with a straight face than calling lows of 35 "winter".

We have two seasons as well, steamy and rainy and warm and wet.

Not the kind of weather I like, but a nice place to live.

Lucille

This year Mother Nature has just been showing us all what she can really do if she wants to get her own back!

Pat P

Probably the same as the locals here. I sent my boss (not a Calif native, either) out on foot in the middle of "winter", and when he came back, he was laughing too hard to stand up. What's so funny, sez me? " Hat and a scarf *and* earmuffs?!?!" (Yes, dear, in 45-50 degrees, these people wear more than you or I would for an Arctic expedition.) I had to ask, was this the same person I'd seen on my way to work, who was wearing down-filled mittens.