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Another storm is heading to Southern California but go back in time to the start of the rainy season and it was a totally different story with us looking at a deficit. I spoke with Alex Tardy is a Meteorologist for the National Weather Service and says the January snowpack measurement in the Sierra Nevada had him concerned.
"Starting November, December not much went on. We had a couple of storms and that was it. Christmas was the worst across the United States in terms of snow," Tardy said. "So, when they actually put the stake in it solidified that we were less than half of where we should be."
There should have been 50" to 100" at 7,000 feet. Instead, there was less than 2 feet, but that all changed by late January with the first Atmospheric River.
"It started with a bang. So, San Diego had all that rain in the downtown area," Tardy said.
Then in early February, Tardy said there was another Atmospheric River.
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