{"id":107905,"date":"2024-11-19T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/bomb-cyclone-to-enhance-powerful-atmospheric-river-targeting-west-coast\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T18:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:05:19","slug":"bomb-cyclone-to-enhance-powerful-atmospheric-river-targeting-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/bomb-cyclone-to-enhance-powerful-atmospheric-river-targeting-west-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb cyclone to enhance powerful atmospheric river targeting West Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-19\/N_Bombcyclone_111924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC News Illustration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(NEW YORK) &#8212; A massive plume of moisture from the Pacific called an atmospheric river will hit the West Coast on Tuesday afternoon and last into Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The storm is expected to become a bomb cyclone &#8212; which means the pressure in the center of the storm will drop 24 millibars within 24 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The storm could be so strong that it even drops close to double that rate &#8212; meaning more than 40 millibars in 24 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Numerous alerts for snow, flooding, high wind and high surf have been issued along the West Coast, from the San Francisco Bay area to Oregon to Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rain totals could surpass 1 foot in Northern California and southern Oregon. More than 3 feet of snow is possible in the higher elevations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wind gusts could reach 85 mph along the coast and waves could climb to 34 feet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">By the weekend, some of the rain from this system will make its way to Southern California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News Illustration (NEW YORK) &#8212; A massive plume of moisture from the Pacific called an atmospheric river will hit the West Coast on Tuesday afternoon and last into Friday. The storm is expected to become a bomb cyclone &#8212; which means the pressure in the center of the storm<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/bomb-cyclone-to-enhance-powerful-atmospheric-river-targeting-west-coast\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}