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Amazingawesomator t1_j3225pb wrote

I will break my own rule and not make fun of the title with a dragula comment because the slamming was not done to a person. Thoughts?

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redyellowblue5031 t1_j32duby wrote

It’s an active pattern right now, and looks like it’ll stay that way for at least another week. Perhaps not as strong as this most recent storm, but Californians shouldn’t let their guard down.

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blinkertx t1_j32eul8 wrote

San Jose resident here, the winds were very strong at times, but I don’t think the storm ever materialized quite the way some had feared. Roads are wet and tree branches are scattered around, but life is moving on even with continued rain.

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blinkertx t1_j32g0c1 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,288,094)

Perhaps, but even the mountains just to my west didn’t get nearly as much rain as the prior weekend per multiple weather apps I was tracking. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ no matter, let’s not sensationalize this and just take the win that things weren’t as bad as they could have been.

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enokidake t1_j32jf66 wrote

Replying to blinkertx (#1,288,063)

SoCal here. I live maybe 30 minutes from the desert and it's been raining on and off for week and right now it is pouring and the streets, and my backyard, are flowing with water.

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MacDerfus t1_j32kt5u wrote

The drought is finally using its vacation days

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AbortedMunk t1_j32napt wrote

Mother Nature asked Cali if it was thirsty, then threw a pitch of water in their faces. Brilliant

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boxer_dogs_dance t1_j32udhg wrote

East Bay here. We had it easy compared to the north bay. I've definitely seen storms with worse flooding but I guess it is too early to judge the impact. I feel horrible for the family in Occidental who lost their child.

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Graf_Orlock t1_j33bftu wrote

Replying to blinkertx (#1,288,063)

Sausalito reporting in. LOTS of downed tree branches and trees (50' tree in Corte Madera down), lots of people without power from our town on up to San Rafael. Minor mudslides around, including a nasty one that took out one of the pedestrian stairs up the hill to the residential area.

We've been out of power since 5PM last night.

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NightWriter500 t1_j33dkag wrote

Replying to boxer_dogs_dance (#1,288,915)

Yeah after all the “Stormpocalypsegeddon ‘23!!”headlines, I expected a little more. My sister-in-law pulled her kid from daycare and her spouse from work to hunker down during the storm and… it rained for like an hour yesterday. Today for like a couple hours. It’s not even raining anymore. Having lived through a couple hurricanes on the east coast, this just isn’t worth all the frenzy.

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FauxShizzle t1_j33ii5a wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,290,096)

LA county alone has 9.83 million people in it, almost the population of all of Michigan. The logistics of dealing with unexpected weather events is difficult to compare between the two regions.

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FifteenthPen t1_j33j4ux wrote

Replying to Jbow89 (#1,289,940)

It's more complicated than that, and mostly has to do with what people in a given region usually call them. Storms in the Atlantic and northeast Pacific (headed for North America or Europe) are hurricanes, storms in the west Pacific and east Indian Ocean (headed for east/southeast Asia) are typhoons, and storms in the south Pacific and west Indian Ocean (headed for Australia, the Middle East, or east Africa) are called cyclones.

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MountainsEcho t1_j33jj57 wrote

At least the reservoirs were low to catch all that water

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Oreolover1907 t1_j33jn6d wrote

Replying to Pawneewafflesarelife (#1,288,455)

https://www.alabamawx.com/?p=195936

This explains difference between tropical cyclones (hurricanes in Atlantic and East Pacific . Typhoons in West pacific) and extratropical cyclones.

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/weather/2020/08/12/could-a-hurricane-hit-southern-california-- this one explains why a hurricane will likely not impact California directly in the near ish future.

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ParticularRiver8064 t1_j33l6l9 wrote

Replying to Jbow89 (#1,289,940)

What you are referring to are tropical cyclones. They are called typhoons in the Pacific Ocean in the northern hemisphere, and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. They also have other names in other areas of the Southern Hemisphere, like tropical cyclone in Australia.

Though what you see impacting California is an extratropical cyclone. Extratropical refers to how they usually form outside the tropics in the extratropical regions of earth. They are very common but can range wildly in intensity.

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CottaBird t1_j33ob38 wrote

Replying to blinkertx (#1,288,063)

From South Sacramento Valley, over new years, we lost the horse fence and an old equipment barn collapsed. The water from creek at the back of our farm reached almost a half mile out from its normal path. We lost the horse fence (again), but it was just propped to get it back up. Our road was blocked by a fallen tree on one end and by flooding on the other. The flooding is back after this last storm, so nobody is driving down the road, but it wasn’t as bay as I thought it would be. We lost power for a few hours NYE night, but not last night. Our big issue is pruning. If it’s pouring and flooded, we can’t get out into the field.

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beebeereebozo t1_j3631sc wrote

Terminology must have changed. Growing up in California, these were just normal winter storms. Although I seem to remember colder temps and lower snowline.

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Pawneewafflesarelife t1_j3air3z wrote

Replying to bazz_and_yellow (#1,288,725)

I was going off this Wikipedia article:

>In the Atlantic and the northeastern Pacific oceans, a tropical cyclone is generally referred to as a hurricane (from the name of the ancient Central American deity of wind, Huracan), in the Indian and south Pacific oceans it is called a cyclone, and in the northwestern Pacific it is called a typhoon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone

I'm still fuzzy on the terms - moved to Australia and they are different from the terms I learned in the states.

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