re: Is "atmospheric river" a new meteorological term because of climate change?

California was bitching all year about drought. It starts raining and they bitching about flooding.
Go figure

Cyclone bomb

Atmospheric river

I think more to do with Weather Channel creating drama and selling advertising than climate change. But I could have an upper level high in my head.

It's a California term.

When it comes to making claims for climate change, you have to just come up with names to create the need for extra fear

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you have to just come up with names to create the need for extra fear

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I propose Hellish H-bomb Humidity to describe La weather in August,

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Water conservationists in Cali stressing right now.

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There is this massive body of water to the west of the state that they are refusing to utilize.

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It actually doesn’t help the citizens at all because their environmentalist policies designed to protect certain aquatic species prevent them from retaining much of that runoff to store in reservoirs for after this rain event is over. The overwhelming majority of this prodigious rainfall is going to be “wasted” flowing right back into the ocean.

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Yeah, many of the farms in the Valley have signs off the freeway complaining about this exact thing. " Newsome stop wasting our water".

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How?

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Maybe a floating dam?

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The amount of water dropped on the Monterey peninsula in the last month is insane

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So they are having typical Louisiana weather?

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The overwhelming majority of this prodigious rainfall is going to be “wasted” flowing right back into the ocean.

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Nearly a decade ago, California taxpayers from both sides of the aisle, overwhelmingly approved the $7+ Billion Sites Reservoir in 2014, so far they’ve received more action from the state’s resident beaver population than their Democratic governors and elected officials.

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“If Sites were open today, we’d have nearly 1 million acre feet of water for farms, the environment, cities,” said the authority’s executive director Jerry Brown (no relation to the former governor).

But here’s the thing: Sites isn’t ready to open today, tomorrow or anytime soon. Mired in red tape and struggling with rising costs, even after the project was downsized, the reservoir isn’t scheduled to begin construction until 2024 and wouldn’t begin filling until 2030.

Millions upon millions of gallons of freshwater per minute are currently being salinited thanks to the corruption and ineptitude of Californian politicians.