Atmospheric River

[Misterjade9]

WTF is an Atmospheric River?, and how do I order one for next year and get the timing right.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

WTF is an Atmospheric River?, and how do I order one for next year and get the timing right.

It is the same as everything to do with climate nowadays, you just have to dial in CO2 levels to exactly the right concentration, and you can accomplish any weather phenomenon you desire .

Although I have noticed that this function seems to work better in hindsight then as a predictor.

[jamesb]

Same as the plough winds we have and not tornado's

[RTK]

Yep - we needed to sensationalize rain…

[shtferbrains]

This is from the article in the NP that Hamloc suggested Chuck read before any more blathering on about global warming.
Its in the BC Floods thread;


Some have used the term “atmospheric river” (AR) to describe what hit B.C.’s Lower Mainland this month. There’s a graphic of an AR hitting the Pacific coast on the cover of the 2017 U.S. Climate Science Special Report from the Global Change Research Program. The report explains that most moisture in the atmosphere travels in such river-like formations. Indeed, 90 per cent of the moisture exiting the tropics gets concentrated into ARs covering only 10 per cent of the circumference of the Earth. ARs occur globally,they are not new nor are they rare — though, thankfully, they are not usually as heavy as what landed on B.C. When its water load hit ground caked with last summer’s wildfire ash , instead of soaking in it ran off over the surface, amplifying the flood impact.

[furrowtickler]

Simply a natural phenomenon when moisture from the Hawaiian area and central Pacific gets funnelled into a narrow band and pushed into western North America
Used to be called the Pineapple Express , but now an atmospheric river .....
One of the reasons they consider the Pacific North West almost a rain forest area .

It’s what feeds moisture into western US and southern BC , typical this time of year in November and December, at times it can be excessive as recent events showed . Generally stays a bit father south later and that’s the snow rain that helps fill northern and central California reservoirs. The first one helped add 35 ft of water to Oriville Lake in Central California back a few weeks ago
Generally help relieve drought conditions in Oregon and California. They will be hoping the December events move south to help fill those reservoirs. BC and Washington will have more than their fill after the next few rounds .
One notable event was in the 1800’s I think , nearly turned the Sacramento valley into a huge inland lake

[helmsdale]

We used to call them a "pineapple express". I suppose that's derogatory to pineapples or some shit, so now they're atmospheric rivers.

[furrowtickler]

[ajl]

Had atmospheric river in this area in 2020. Rainfall begets rainfall which they are learning about in Abbotsford this week. Would rather have a sub 10 bu/ac canola crop due to drought than flooding. Had acres that were sprayed out in 20 due to the crop being drowned and late flush weeds. In our county, most had better crops in 21 than 20.

[fjlip]

Well chucky???? Waiting for the MSM/f*ctcheck!

[furrowtickler]

Had atmospheric river in this area in 2020. Rainfall begets rainfall which they are learning about in Abbotsford this week. Would rather have a sub 10 bu/ac canola crop due to drought than flooding. Had acres that were sprayed out in 20 due to the crop being drowned and late flush weeds. In our county, most had better crops in 21 than 20.

Very wet areas west of here the past few years actually had a decent crop this year as well , Lashburn area and north was some decent crop . They dealt with some very wet conditions recently, but not as wet as your area ajl

Proves you can grow a decent crop in hot dry conditions with good subsoil moisture from previous years