Rains will reduce fire risk and smoke, forecasters say
The first atmospheric river storm of season is forecast to hit Northern California on Sunday and Monday. And it’s not a small one — a 4 on the scale of 1 to 5.
“It looks like any really measurable rain is going to be north of the Golden Gate,” said Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services in San Mateo County. “There will be drizzle in Half Moon Bay and some other parts of the Bay Area.” All that rain will slow the fires substantially, but also will douse their smoke and blow much of it west and north, experts say.
Atmospheric river storms are the biggest “rivers” on Earth. Moisture-rich storms that often originate near Hawaii, they flow through the sky up to 2 miles above the ocean and carry twice the volume of water per second as the Amazon River and 25 times the volume of the Mississippi where it flows into the ocean.
As of Monday, 257,405 acres had burned in 2023 in California on lands overseen by Cal Fire, the state’s leading firefighting agency, and the U.S. Forest Service. That is just 22% of the five-year average over the same dates.
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