Strange Sounds
After 16 days of relentless Pacific storms, including a bomb cyclone, and a constant stream of atmospheric rivers, most of the Bay Area is slated to see a comfortable break in the wet pattern Thursday.
This is thanks to a shift in the flow of air thousands of feet above the ground — the jet stream — its winds gradually shifting north in the coming days, meaning the storm door will finally begin to close.
But before it does, two more storms will roll into far Northern California this weekend and into early next week. Some of the rain and snow will spill into the rest of the Golden State, raising the risk for light to moderate bands of rain in areas that are filled to the brim from all the recent storms.
Thursday’s shift in the jet stream has some far-reaching implications to the overall weather pattern in the Bay Area and much of California. Its tilt farther north will send atmospheric rivers into Eureka and the Oregon coast, rather than the Bay Area and Southern California. The last time the core of atmospheric rivers made landfall that far north was in mid-December, when most of the Bay Area was just starting to see brief rounds of moderate rain.
This shift in the jet stream’s flow is causing a weather pattern that resembles mid-December’s flow of moisture.
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