The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Weather => Topic started by: libertybele on October 27, 2021, 12:57:00 am
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Yosemite Falls is flowing again thanks to that major storm that walloped the drought-choked US West
Yosemite Falls is again hosting its famous deluge after record-shattering rainfall this week in California following an extremely dry summer and extensive drought.
Water surged over the 2,425-foot falls Monday, just four days after the same majestic rock face appeared as only a dry canvas for the sun's glow, Yosemite National Park's webcam feeds showed.
About 7 inches of rain came down across Yosemite National Park from late Sunday evening through late afternoon Monday -- with lower totals in the southern and western sections -- said Jerald Meadows, meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service office in Hanford, California.
"That's definitely getting into that historical rainfall realm," he told CNN on Tuesday. "It's definitely significant."
The considerable rain owed to a chart-topping "atmospheric river" that coincided last weekend along the West Coast with a storm system known as a "bomb cyclone."....................
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/26/weather/yosemite-falls-rainfall-atmospheric-river/index.html