Western Storms Produce Rain, New Records

The strong storms that rolled across the west over the weekend, broke several records.

"That system, first of all, started the day, on Sunday, breaking a record for the lowest barometric pressure ever seen off the pacific northwest coast.  In other words, off of the Washington coast," said USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey. "And we saw some truly historic amounts of precipitation being unloaded on drought-stricken California, all at once, which unfortunately led to significant run-off and some landslides, mudslides and debris flows in some of the recently burned areas."

Rippey noted that Blue Canyon in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

"[The foothills] picked up an incredible 10.4" of  rain during the calendar day for Sunday, October 24th.  That was the wettest, one day period on record for that locations.  The previous record of just over 9" was set during a storm in December of 1964."

Last weekend's storms brought much needed rain to locations east of the Cascades, but several locations in western Washington and Oregon reported localized flooding, downed trees and missive power outages.

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