California Weather Blog: California enters extended dry period once again as high pressure builds; summer-like temperatures by mid-March

From the California Weather Blog:

weather blog“Active weather finally did return to the Golden State over the past several weeks. A handful of storm systems, driven by the first major easterly incursion of the low-latitude Pacific jet stream in over a year, brought substantial precipitation to essentially the entire drought region. One of these storms in particular was especially notable, bringing very active weather to Southern California (including severe thunderstorms and localized flash flooding).

Mini-supercell that produced an EF-0 tornado near Woodland, CA.

In some parts of Southland, this storm brought the heaviest 1 and 2 day rainfall totals in several years. In the unstable airmass associated with the low, a few strong thunderstorms also occurred in Northern California, which ultimately culminated in the touchdown of a brief EF-0 tornado in fallow agricultural land just east of Woodland, CA in the southern Sacramento Valley. … “

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