Upcoming Storm(s), 1/29/24

From the NWS, Bay Area, who advises keeping up with the latest forecasts:

“Slight update to the forecast for the upcoming storm on Wednesday. Expect issues if traveling on Wednesday, especially in the North Bay and the coastal ranges. Roadway flooding and shallow landslides are likely.”

I am particularly fond of “shallow landslides are likely” as opposed to deep, I would guess. (I looked it up: “Landslide processes involve the downslope movement of soil or rock under the effect of gravity (USGS, 2004). Shallow landslides (SLs) are a subset of these processes that usually involve soil masses less than 2 m thick (Phillips et al., 2021), generally sliding translationally over the failure surface at or near discontinuities in the soil profile or the bedrock contact.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925857421002913)

Fun week coming up, it looks like. Stay safe, everyone!