Flood Emergency Issued For Los Angeles, Orange, Inland Empire Zones Week of February 18th, 2024

Photo bySouthern California Weather Force

Southern California Weather Force has issued Flood Emergency effective now for the week of February 18th, 2024, for the following areas;

Los Angeles and Orange County, The Inland Empire, and Camp Pendleton.

A Long-Range Weather Warning is now also in effect for the following areas;

San Luis Obispo, Kern, Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Diego County …. The High Desert

Discussion: The last updates have continued to show a storm pattern moving back into the area for the week of February 18th, 2024. Recent calculations within the Southern California Weather Force Precipitation Risk Model have now elevated across the forecast area, even giving emergency levels for the metros of LA/OC/IE. This is stronger than the last one in the emergency level zones.

From what I can see, a split-flow pattern will emerge. This storm pattern is currently exiting Russia’s East Coast at the time of this article write-up. It will cross the vastness of the Pacific Ocean throughout the week and finally dip down into the Southern California area by Sunday, with Saturday having precipitation along the San Luis Obispo to Vandenberg Coast.

The rest of us will wait for Sunday when it finally moves in. This system can drag colder air down for resort level snow, but right now I will wait a bit to call on that. Systems this season have tended to show colder tracks in the medium range, only to be warmer in the real-time range. The systems however do have the pattern to bring colder systems down.

LONG RANGE: Systems could continue end month, and then again colder in March. We started late, a rare start period, but we seem to be catching up. For now, I will keep updating on current events.

The following links are links showing records of this storm pattern forecast:

February 8, 2024 at 12:33 pm – Long Range Weather Watch Issued: Second Storm Pattern Aiming Southern California Week of February 17th – https://www.southerncaliforniaweatherforce.com/2024/02/08/long-range-weather-watch-issued-second-storm-pattern-aiming-southern-california-week-of-february-17th/

February 10, 2024 at 10:46 am – Long Range Weather Watch Upgraded to Long Range Weather Advisory for Week of February 17th – https://www.southerncaliforniaweatherforce.com/2024/02/10/long-range-weather-watch-upgraded-to-long-range-weather-advisory-for-week-of-february-17th/

Stay tuned to Southern California Weather Force on any further official updates …

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