Record storm slams West Coast as tens of millions on East Coast brace for nor'easter

Over the weekend the strongest storm to ever hit the West Coast slammed onshore, packing strong winds, record rainfall and heavy Sierra snow. On the East Coast, tens of millions braced Monday for the season's first nor'easter.

The first days of the week is poised to bring extreme rain to much of the country. In total, more than 90 million people will experience dangerous weather in the form of high winds, flooding rainfall or severe thunderstorms through Wednesday. Over the weekend in California, a storm system dropped to a barometric pressure of 945.2 mb, making it the strongest storm to affect the Pacific Northwest on record. For perspective, this is equivalent to the central pressure you would see with a strong hurricane.As the storm system roared into the region, it dropped 4.02 inches of rain in downtown San Francisco, making it the wettest October day on record.

On Monday morning, 7 million people remained under flood alerts and 18 million people under wind alerts. Heavy rain was expected to continue across much of California, where rainfall rates of 1 inch per hour at times will keep the risk for flash flooding, landslides and mudslides high through Monday night. The winds will also stay strong, with wind gusts up to 70 mph especially at the highest elevations.

Additional rainfall totals will be 3 to 4 inches, and by the time the storm moves out of the region on Tuesday 2 to 3 feet of fresh snow will blanket the Sierra.If there was any good news that came out of the powerful western storm, it's that the

So we understand, when they say ' strongest storm on record', it means from 1840 until now. That's the record. Leaving out 99.99999999999999999999999% of Earth's 4.6 billion years. climatescammers

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