Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Expanding and intensifying portends an early start to the wildfire season, and the National Interagency Fire Center is predicting above-normal potential for large wildfires by midsummer.Mountain snowpack has been , southern Cascades and the Great Basin, and the agency warns that these areas need to be monitored closely as fuels continue to dry out. The agency also cites a warm, dry pattern in Oregon and central and eastern Washington, and assigns all of these areas a higher-than-average likelihood of wildfires in July.Precipitation...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Expanding and intensifying portends an early start to the wildfire season, and the National Interagency Fire Center is predicting above-normal potential for large wildfires by midsummer.Mountain snowpack has been , southern Cascades and the Great Basin, and the agency warns that these areas need to be monitored closely as fuels continue to dry out. The agency also cites a warm, dry pattern in Oregon and central and eastern Washington, and assigns all of these areas a higher-than-average likelihood of wildfires in July.Precipitation...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A low-pressure trough pushing into Northern California from the eastern Pacific will bring widespread showers to the part of the state most in need of rain.The is expected to push a cold front into Northern California Monday morning through Monday evening, causing widespread showers and breezy southwest winds gusting 25 to 40 mph in the higher elevations, the National Weather Service said. Showers will continue Monday night and Tuesday as the trough itself pushes through, and weak instability could cause thundershowers. High...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A low-pressure trough pushing into Northern California from the eastern Pacific will bring widespread showers to the part of the state most in need of rain.The is expected to push a cold front into Northern California Monday morning through Monday evening, causing widespread showers and breezy southwest winds gusting 25 to 40 mph in the higher elevations, the National Weather Service said. Showers will continue Monday night and Tuesday as the trough itself pushes through, and weak instability could cause thundershowers. High...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A deep low-pressure system that was about 1,000 miles west of Oregon on Friday will tap moisture originating in the subtropical Pacific and direct it toward Oregon and Northern California, the National Weather Service said.The plume of moisture is predicted to be an at landfall, said F. Martin Ralph, a leading authority on atmospheric rivers and director of the Center for Western Water and Weather Extremes at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow, concentrated bands of water vapor carried along...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A deep low-pressure system that was about 1,000 miles west of Oregon on Friday will tap moisture originating in the subtropical Pacific and direct it toward Oregon and Northern California, the National Weather Service said.The plume of moisture is predicted to be an at landfall, said F. Martin Ralph, a leading authority on atmospheric rivers and director of the Center for Western Water and Weather Extremes at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow, concentrated bands of water vapor carried along...WW…