"The intense rainstorms sweeping in from the Pacific Ocean began to pound central California on Christmas Eve in 1861 and continued virtually unabated for 43 days."
— Atmospheric river

January 1, 1970

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Michael D. Dettinger research hydrologist for the U.S. geological Survey and and B. Lynn Ingram, professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley [ https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Dettinger_Ingram_sciam13.pdf Huge flows of vapor in the atmosphere, dubbed “atmospheric rivers,” have unleashed massive floods every 200 years, and climate change could bring more of them] (2013-10)