Atmospheric River California February 2024 India. Millions of californians were under flood alerts as a powerful atmospheric river brought heavy rain to the west coast in early february 2024. A pair of powerful atmospheric river events brought heavy precipitation across much of coastal california this week, resulting in record rainfall totals, extensive.

While atmospheric rivers frequently make landfall in california during winter, 2024 has the added effect of being an el niño year, which tends to alter the. Heavy rains and damaging winds impacted the bay area and the central coast