{"id":77527,"date":"2018-04-04T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/flood-warnings-issued-in-sierra-as-storm-forecast-calls-for-warm-rain-limited-snow"},"modified":"2018-04-04T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:43:44","slug":"flood-warnings-issued-in-sierra-as-storm-forecast-calls-for-warm-rain-limited-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/flood-warnings-issued-in-sierra-as-storm-forecast-calls-for-warm-rain-limited-snow","title":{"rendered":"Flood warnings issued in Sierra as storm forecast calls for warm rain, limited snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flood-warnings-issued-in-sierra-as-storm-forecast-calls-for-warm-rain-limited-snow.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hot rain? Not quite, but one of the unique characteristics of the soaker aimed at the Bay Area on Friday and Saturday is its warmth.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters are calling this \u201catmospheric river\u201d with a moisture plume stretching back to the Hawaiian Islands \u201cremarkable,\u201d and saying it\u2019s likely to be the warmest storm of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason for this warmth is the subtropical origins of the air in this system,\u201d says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. \u201cIt won\u2019t be unusually warm for April, per se, when most days are rain-free, but it will certainly be warm for a rainy day at any time of the year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/weather\/article\/atmospheric-river-pineapple-express-California-SF-12804714.php\">https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/weather\/article\/atmospheric-river-pin...804714.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot rain? Not quite, but one of the unique characteristics of the soaker aimed at the Bay Area on Friday and Saturday is its warmth. Forecasters are calling this \u201catmospheric river\u201d with a moisture plume stretching back to the Hawaiian Islands \u201cremarkable,\u201d and saying it\u2019s likely to be the warmest storm of the season. \u201cThe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}