by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
Scientists have been warning for decades that “the Big One” is coming. Will those warnings soon be proven true? Since late December, the state of California has been absolutely pummeled by an endless series of “atmospheric rivers” that have dumped an unprecedented amount of moisture on the state. In fact, there is one mountain in California that has actually received more than 100 inches of rain over the past several months. It has been a relentless barrage, and now it has been capped off by an extremely powerful storm that is being compared to a hurricane.
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For example, Bloomberg is reporting that the “bomb cyclone” that just hit the state produced “hurricane-force gusts”…
A historic storm that rattled San Francisco with hurricane-force gusts is winding down, leaving behind the threat of flooded streets and highways across the Bay Area.
Unfortunately, that is no exaggeration at all. It is being reported some areas recorded wind gusts that were close to 100 mph…
Powerful winds continued to whip the San Francisco Bay Area as the rain subsided Tuesday afternoon. Multiple gusts over 90 mph were recorded.
PG&E said its gauge on Mount Umunhum recorded a 97 mph wind gust, and another at San Francisco International Airport measured 74 mph. Mines Road in the interior East Bay was knocked by a 93 mph wind.
One climate scientist that was interviewed about the storm also used the word “hurricane” to describe what we just witnessed…
“This was a violent, sudden windstorm,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles. “We’re seeing impacts probably that are similar to a strong tropical storm or a weak hurricane.”
But hurricanes are not supposed to be a problem that the west coast ever has to worry about.
So this storm was definitely very unusual.
A meteorologist that ventured out during the chaos actually “found himself in the eye of the storm”…
Meteorologist Drew Tuma of ABC7 tweeted that he witnessed the winds drop ‘from 60mph to dead calm in an instant’ after he found himself in the eye of the storm.
A normal rainstorm does not have an “eye”.
But this one did.
And it is being reported that a tornado actually touched down “near downtown Los Angeles”…
🚨#BREAKING: Damaging Tornado touches down near downtown Los Angeles
Watch as a extremely rare damaging tornado touches down in Montebello California about 8 miles from downtown Los Angeles as Debris flies in the air the air reports of multiple… pic.twitter.com/FkP4oBWzPt
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I can’t remember ever seeing something like that before in southern California.
This isn’t normal.
But California has been hammered by such extreme weather in recent months that it is truly difficult to define what “normal” is for the state anymore.
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