Pacific Coast Atmospheric Rivers Winter 2023 - Total Precipitable Water
Published March 09, 2023
A series of North Pacific cyclones transport tropical moisture up and over a blocking high pressure system forming an atmospheric river bend. This river supplies copious amounts of precipitable water (TPW) that inundates California and the West Coast of the United States with each passing storm. Sea level pressure is shown as contours with local minima in units of mb.
