The Pineapple Express and Atmospheric Rivers

California’s Great Flood of 1862

Published in The EarthSphere Blog

The Pineapple Express ( by WM House; ArcheanArt)

This past weekend, Northern California passed from drought to flood as a narrow band of fast-moving air, supercharged with moisture, dumped its wet load. Welcome to the Pineapple Express, an atmospheric river bringing moist tropical air from Hawaii to the West Coast of the…