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Heavy Rainfall to Bring Flooding Threat to California; Heavy Snow in the Sierra

A strong atmospheric river will bring heavy rainfall to California through the holiday week. The heaviest rainfall is expected on Wednesday in the Los Angeles Basin. Flash and urban flooding is possible. A prolonged heavy snowfall is expected in the Sierra Nevada from the atmospheric river, raising concerns for major snow‐load impacts. Travel may be difficult to impossible over the passes. Read More >

Routine early AM synoptic KXMR rawinsonde

Routine early AM synoptic Skew-T Log P diagram for KXMR (Cape Canaveral, Florida) weather balloon.  Mission support rawinsondes released from KXMR may be found with the link or drop down menu.

Y-axis is pressure in millibars.  Wind barbs are located to the right hand side of the diagram with speed in knots. Solid red line is temperature in Celcius. Dashed green line is dew point in Celcius.