Watch in HD. Looks like California was in for a drench... Due to this storm being a big deal, I had to divide it in two (daytime and night time). This video only shows its daytime impacts here in San Jose, CA...particularly the worst and heaviest rainfall it had delivered. I always love driving in heavy rain! Of course the entire state had felt its impacts as well. Weather scenario: A powerful storm fueled by a stream of tropical moisture called the Pineapple Express, or atmospheric river, had battered not only drought-stricken California, but also the entire West Coast with damaging winds and enough rain to cause flooding and landslides. The strongest storm so far this season and in the last four to 10 years for California had delivered drenching rain to hard-hit drought areas, along with the risk of damaging winds, flooding and mudslides. For us here in San Jose, CA, we had experienced gusty southerly winds during the predawn hours thru early morning on Dec 11. Winds were blowing anywhere from 20-40 mph around our area, with local gusts even higher. Then the drenching rains came shortly later as the winds died down. Certainly, powerful wind gusts had battered the San Francisco Bay Area Thursday morning (December 11, 2014), knocking out power to some 150,000 customers. Winds in the Sierra Nevada had even topped out at 147 mph on the summit of Mount Lincoln, near Truckee!! Down south, in Downtown Los Angeles, they saw just over 1.5 inches of rain through 10 a.m. Friday (Dec 12). In addition, an EF0 tornado was also reported 5 miles south-southwest of Los Angeles on Friday morning. This systems main weather front had drifted ever-so slowly southward down to SoCal, later affecting them just hours after it had unleashed its flooding rains here in NorCal just the previous day. By the afternoon of Dec 11, the worst part of the storm was just east of us, but consistent moderate to heavy rains had lingered well into the evening and even lasting until the very next day as well (Dec 12)... Indeed the moderate to heavy rains continued on the evening of December 11, 2014 with isolated rain showers continuing through Friday. By Saturday, a weak high pressure ridge was to be over the area and we would have partly sunny skies... it felt like its been a while since our area has seen a dry period! However, clouds would then increase Sunday once again as yet another storm system was to move across the state Sunday night thru Tuesday with more rain. This storm was part of a Pineapple Express event. The first week of December was one of the warmest on record for much of California. This was due, in part, because of near-record sea-surface temperatures along the Californian coastline, which also had enhanced incoming storms coming in from the Pacific... *After The Storm/Rainfall Totals From This Strong, VERY wet storm: The Safeway at Capitol Expressway and Silver Creek Road had remained shut down in San Jose, CA on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, after the roof caved in from Thursdays heavy storm. Countless roads, even along the U.S. 101 freeway had flooded sections, causing traffic and hazardous driving conditions. Also, even the Thompson Creek which runs parallel to Capitol Expressway, was the highest Ive seen it! Despite this potent storm, we had no power outages in my neck of the woods. **Overview of this strong, very wet storm and rainfall totals (rough estimates): Rainfall from this single storm had approached and even exceeded the average rainfall for the entire month of December in many areas. In some cases, this storm was the biggest single rain-producer in about 10 years! This most potent storm this month had delivered millions of gallons of water per square mile on much of California through Friday (Dec 12). Thursdays deluge from Californias Stormageddon served up some eye-popping totals throughout the Bay Area, including roughly 3.39 inches here in San Jose! So far this month, San Jose had received around 5.78 inches of rain, the most since 2002 when the city recorded 6.6 inches! So far this wet season, San Jose has registered a whopping 8.33 inches of rain, more than twice the average. This storm indeed brought the 3rd wettest day ever to our city, at least since the year 1958 or so! On Thursday, 3.29 inches of rain fell at San Jose Airport, the third wettest day since record keeping began in the late 1800s. The last time it rained this much in San Jose in one day was on January 30, 1958, when 3.60 inches fell. San Jose’s wettest day on record was on September 12, 1918, when 4.18 inches fell. Stay safe out there folks, because even more (weaker) storms were forecast to arrive in the foreseeable future! We had prayed for rain and boy, did we get it! (Footage taken Thursday morning, December 11, 2014 around San Jose, CA.)
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 09:21:05 +0000
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