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Alternate Text: Animated gif showing the transport of atmospheric moisture from the tropics to the U.S. West Coast
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Animated gif showing the transport of atmospheric moisture from the tropics to the U.S. West Coast

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Total precipitable water (the depth of water in a column of the atmosphere, if all the water in that column falls as rain) from October 23-25, 2021, showing the atmospheric river that battered the San Francisco, California region. Animation generated with MIMIC-TPW data and the Jupyter notebook provided by the Seasoned Chaos Blog.